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Asian Palm Swift

Cypsiurus balasiensis

Least Concern · IUCN Red List

LCLeast ConcernInvertebratesUrbanCup nestTiny · 9 g
Asian Palm Swift (Cypsiurus balasiensis), photo 1
Photo: white_cheeked_barbet · CC BY 4.0
Asian Palm Swift (Cypsiurus balasiensis), photo 2
Photo: Mickey Wu · CC BY 4.0
Asian Palm Swift (Cypsiurus balasiensis), photo 3
Photo: Mickey Wu · CC BY 4.0
Asian Palm Swift (Cypsiurus balasiensis), photo 4
Photo: Afsar Nayakkan · CC BY 4.0
Asian Palm Swift (Cypsiurus balasiensis), photo 5
Photo: Zac Peterson · CC BY 4.0
Asian Palm Swift (Cypsiurus balasiensis), photo 6
Photo: Forest Botial-Jarvis · CC BY 4.0
Asian Palm Swift (Cypsiurus balasiensis), photo 7
Photo: Forest Botial-Jarvis · CC BY 4.0
Asian Palm Swift (Cypsiurus balasiensis), photo 8
Photo: Premphotocentre · CC BY 4.0
Asian Palm Swift (Cypsiurus balasiensis), photo 9
Photo: Mickey Wu · CC BY 4.0
Asian Palm Swift (Cypsiurus balasiensis), photo 10
Photo: Mickey Wu · CC BY 4.0

What the Asian Palm Swift sounds like

Sonogram of the Asian Palm Swift: time runs left to right, pitch bottom to top, and the brighter the mark the louder the sound.
Recorded by Vihansith Kulatunga · Flight call · Palaiyoothu, Trincomalee, Eastern Province, Sri Lanka · CC BY-SA 4.0 · via xeno-canto

When to see the Asian Palm Swift

One bar for each month, and every month is filled: this bird is recorded here in all twelve. The wide bar is February, the month with the most records.

Where to see the Asian Palm Swift

Regular range

The map shades 17 countries with regular records. Everything unshaded has no records. Countries are listed below the map.

India Thailand Sri Lanka Cambodia Bangladesh Vietnam Laos Myanmar (Burma) Malaysia China Philippines Indonesia Singapore Bhutan Nepal Brunei Uganda

About the Asian Palm Swift

The Asian palm swift is a small swift. It is very similar to the African palm swift, Cypsiurus parvus, and was formerly considered to be the same species.

Text adapted from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

Easily confused with

African Palm Swift (Cypsiurus parvus) African Palm SwiftCypsiurus parvusThis 16 cm long species is mainly pale brown in colour. Malagasy Palm Swift (Cypsiurus gracilis) Malagasy Palm SwiftCypsiurus gracilisThe Malagasy palm swift is a small swift in the family Apodidae.

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