Madagascar Spinetail

When to see the Madagascar Spinetail

One bar for each month. Filled bars are the 6 months with records; pale bars are months with none. The wide bar is November, the month with the most records.

Where to see the Madagascar Spinetail

The map shades 2 countries with regular records, and 1 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.

Recorded as a rare visitor in Mayotte.

About the Madagascar Spinetail

The Madagascar spinetail, Madagascan spinetail or Malagasy spinetail is a species of swift in the family Apodidae. It is found in Comoros, Madagascar, and Mayotte.

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Easily confused with

Sao Tome SpinetailZoonavena thomensisThe São Tomé spinetail is a species of swift in the family Apodidae. White-rumped SpinetailZoonavena sylvaticaThe white-rumped spinetail or white-rumped needletail is a species of swift found in the forests of Bangladesh, India and Nepal.