Alpine Swift
Field guide
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Alpine Swift

Tachymarptis melba

Overview

Table Mountain, Kruger and Garden Route National Parks are among nine atlas places where the Alpine Swift is recorded. Its records concentrate in Spain, South Africa, Israel, France and Türkiye, with about 111,000 records in the atlas across 32 countries. This map follows where those records gather.

Seasons for recording the Alpine Swift differ by region, and each place page shows the months when it is recorded there.

Records
111,347
Countries
32
Atlas places
9
Recorded in and around these atlas places

These are open occurrence records, so they show where people looked for and recorded the Alpine 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.

  • Spain
    25 km zone · high confidence · 32263 records · updated 40 days ago
    Very likely
  • South Africa
    25 km zone · high confidence · 17779 records · updated 40 days ago
    Very likely
  • Türkiye
    25 km zone · high confidence · 10774 records · updated 40 days ago
    Very likely
  • France
    25 km zone · high confidence · 10314 records · updated 40 days ago
    Very likely
  • Palestinian Territories
    25 km zone · high confidence · 7953 records · updated 40 days ago
    Very likely
  • Greece
    25 km zone · high confidence · 5957 records · updated 40 days ago
    Very likely
  • India
    25 km zone · high confidence · 4628 records · updated 40 days ago
    Very likely
  • Bulgaria
    25 km zone · high confidence · 4123 records · updated 40 days ago
    Very likely
  • Israel
    25 km zone · high confidence · 3854 records · updated 40 days ago
    Very likely
  • Portugal
    25 km zone · high confidence · 3061 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 Alpine Swift