Species factsheet

African Palm Swift (Cypsiurus parvus)

Order: Cypsiurus parvus
Family: Swifts (Apodidae)

Danish name: Afrikansk Palmesejler

Voices can be found here (External link)

Subspecies and Distribution

parvus

Senegal and Gambia to n Ethiopia and sw Arabia

brachypterus

Sierra Leone to ne DR Congo and Angola, islands in the Gulf of Guinea

myochrous

s Sudan to ne South Africa

laemostigma

s Somalia to c Mozambique

griveaudi

Comoro Is.

gracilis

Madagascar

hyphaenes

n Namibia and n Botswana

celer

s Mozambique to e South Africa

Photos

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