Böhm's Spinetail (Neafrapus boehmi) | Photos and ID

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WoodlandCup nestTiny · 14 g

Böhm's Spinetail (Neafrapus boehmi), photo 2 — Photo: Adrien Jailloux · CC BY 4.0

Böhm's Spinetail (Neafrapus boehmi), photo 3 — Photo: Thomas Galewski · CC BY 4.0

Böhm's Spinetail (Neafrapus boehmi), photo 4 — Photo: Tom Field · CC BY 4.0

Böhm's Spinetail (Neafrapus boehmi), photo 5 — Photo: i_c_riddell · CC BY 4.0

Böhm's Spinetail (Neafrapus boehmi), photo 6 — Photo: i_c_riddell · CC BY 4.0

Böhm's Spinetail (Neafrapus boehmi), photo 7 — Photo: Justin Ponder · CC BY 4.0

Böhm's Spinetail (Neafrapus boehmi), photo 8 — Photo: Justin Ponder · CC BY 4.0

Böhm's Spinetail (Neafrapus boehmi), photo 9 — Photo: Jakob Horz · CC BY 4.0

When to see the Böhm's Spinetail

One bar for each month. Filled bars are the 10 months with records; pale bars are months with none. The wide bar is November, the month with the most records.

Where to see the Böhm's Spinetail

Regular rangeRare visitor

The map shades 8 countries with regular records, and 2 more in a lighter tone where the bird turns up only as a stray. Everything unshaded has no records. Countries are listed below the map.

South Africa Zimbabwe Kenya Mozambique Zambia Tanzania Angola Congo - Kinshasa

Recorded as a rare visitor in Botswana, Malawi.

About the Böhm's Spinetail

Böhm's spinetail, also Bohm's spinetail or Boehm's spinetail,, also known as the bat-like spinetail, is a species of swift in the family Apodidae.

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

Easily confused with

Cassin's SpinetailNeafrapus cassiniCassin's spinetail is a species of swift in the family Apodidae.

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