Little Swift
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Little Swift

Apus affinis

Overview

Kruger National Park, iSimangaliso Wetland Park and Table Mountain National Park are among 19 atlas places where the Little Swift is recorded. Its records concentrate in India, South Africa and Kenya, and the atlas holds about 257,000 records from 17 countries. Because the map follows where these records gather, it shows a partial view of the total range.

Recording seasons differ by region, and each place page shows the months when the bird is recorded there.

Records
257,401
Countries
17
Atlas places
19
Recorded in and around these atlas places

These are open occurrence records, so they show where people looked for and recorded the Little Swift as much as where it lives. The atlas keeps a species' 200 best-recorded grid cells, so the map shows where records concentrate rather than its whole range. Cells are up to 25 km across, and every location is generalised to its cell.

Where you'll find them

Generalised encounter areas, not exact locations. Each shape is a grid cell coloured by how likely the species is there.

  • India
    25 km zone · high confidence · 131183 records · updated 40 days ago
    Very likely
  • South Africa
    25 km zone · high confidence · 92499 records · updated 40 days ago
    Very likely
  • Kenya
    25 km zone · high confidence · 8420 records · updated 40 days ago
    Very likely
  • Sri Lanka
    25 km zone · high confidence · 5373 records · updated 40 days ago
    Very likely
  • Namibia
    25 km zone · high confidence · 3718 records · updated 40 days ago
    Very likely
  • Tanzania
    25 km zone · high confidence · 3138 records · updated 40 days ago
    Very likely
  • Mozambique
    25 km zone · high confidence · 2127 records · updated 40 days ago
    Very likely
  • Spain
    25 km zone · high confidence · 1993 records · updated 40 days ago
    Very likely
  • Morocco
    25 km zone · high confidence · 1840 records · updated 40 days ago
    Very likely
  • Nigeria
    25 km zone · high confidence · 1182 records · updated 40 days ago
    Very likely

Conservation status not assessed here yet, so every location is generalised to its grid cell.

Photographs
1 of Little Swift