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Species |
Family |
Scientific name |
Breeding Regions |
Breeding Subregions |
Nonbreeding Subregions |
- APODIFORMES |
African Black Swift i U | Apodidae | Apus barbatus | AF | s, e | |
Bates's Swift i | Apodidae | Apus batesi | AF | Sierra Leone to Ivory Coast; Cameroon to Gabon | |
Blyth's Swift i | Apodidae | Apus leuconyx | PAL, OR | mid to high altitudes in Pakistan, Nepal, Bhutan and ne India | some winter at lower altitudes in Nepal and peninsular India |
Bradfield's Swift i U | Apodidae | Apus bradfieldi | AF | sw | |
Cape Verde Swift i | Apodidae | Apus alexandri | AF | Cape Verde Is. (all islands; s Macaronesia, w of n Africa) | |
Common Swift i U | Apodidae | Apus apus | PAL | widespread | s AF |
Cook's Swift i U | Apodidae | Apus cooki | OR | lowland Myanmar, n Thailand, Vietnam and Guangxi, China | Laos, Vietnam, Cambodia, Myanmar and Thailand |
Dark-rumped Swift (VU) i | Apodidae | Apus acuticauda | OR | ne India and Myanmar | |
Fernando Po Swift (DD) i | Apodidae | Apus sladeniae | AF | sw Nigeria, w Cameroon, w Angola and Bioko | |
Forbes-Watson's Swift i | Apodidae | Apus berliozi | AF | e | |
Horus Swift i | Apodidae | Apus horus | AF | widespread | |
House Swift i U | Apodidae | Apus nipalensis | OR | also s Japan | |
Little Swift i | Apodidae | Apus affinis | AF, OR | Africa, sw Asia and India | |
Malagasy Black Swift i | Apodidae | Apus balstoni | AF | Comoros and Madagascar | |
Nyanza Swift i | Apodidae | Apus niansae | AF | e | |
Pacific Swift i | Apodidae | Apus pacificus | PAL | c Siberia and Mongolia through Kamchatka (se Russia) and Japan | OR, AU |
Pallid Swift i U | Apodidae | Apus pallidus | PAL, AF | s Europe, Arabian Pen. and n AF | c, w AF |
Plain Swift i | Apodidae | Apus unicolor | AF | Madeira (all islands) and Canary is. (all islands; nc to c Macaronesia, nw of n Africa); may breed adjacent Moroccan coast | to adjacent Moroccan coast |
Salim Ali's Swift i | Apodidae | Apus salimalii | PAL | e Tibetan Plateau and adjacent w Sichuan | |
White-rumped Swift i | Apodidae | Apus caffer | AF | widespread | |
15% 3 species of 20 (0 extinct).
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IUCN Status Codes |
EX | Extinct |
EW | Extinct in the wild |
CR | Critically Endangered |
EN | Endangered |
VU | Vulnerable |
NT | Near Threatened |
LC | Least Concern |
DD | Data deficient |
NE | Not evaluated |
LC not shown.
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Breeding Range Codes |
AF | Africa (entire continent rather than south of Sahara) |
AN | Antarctica |
AO | Atlantic Ocean |
AU | Australasia (Wallacea (Indonesian islands east of Wallace's line), New Guinea and its islands, Australia, New Zealand and its subantarctic islands, the Solomons, New Caledonia, and Vanuatu) |
PAL | Eurasia (Europe, Asia from the Middle East through central Asia north of the Himalayas, Siberia and northern China to Japan) |
IO | Indian Ocean |
LA | Latin America (Middle and South America) |
MA | Middle America (Mexico through Panama) |
NA | North America (includes the Caribbean) |
NO | Northern oceans |
OR | Oriental Region (South Asia from Pakistan to Taiwan, plus Southeast Asia, the Philippines, and Greater Sundas) |
PO | Pacific Ocean |
SA | South America |
SO | Southern oceans |
TO | Temperate oceans |
TrO | Tropical oceans |
Worldwide | Worldwide |
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