Mottled Swift (Tachymarptis aequatorialis) | Photos and ID

LCLeast ConcernInvertebrates

ShrublandCup nestMedium · 93 g

Mottled Swift (Tachymarptis aequatorialis), photo 4 — Photo: Jan Ebr & Ivana Ebrová · CC BY 4.0

Mottled Swift (Tachymarptis aequatorialis), photo 9 — Photo: (c) avocat, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY

Mottled Swift (Tachymarptis aequatorialis), photo 10 — Photo: (c) Jan Ebr & Ivana Ebrová, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY

When to see the Mottled Swift

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

Where to see the Mottled Swift

Regular rangeRare visitor

The map shades 21 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.

Kenya Tanzania Zimbabwe Ethiopia Uganda Angola Nigeria Sierra Leone Ghana Cameroon Rwanda Congo - Kinshasa Mozambique Guinea Senegal Togo Malawi Gabon Zambia Eritrea Gambia

Recorded as a rare visitor in Côte d’Ivoire.

About the Mottled Swift

The mottled swift is a species of bird in the swift family, Apodidae. It is very sparsely distributed in Sub-Saharan Africa, although more so throughout East Africa.

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

Easily confused with

Alpine SwiftTachymarptis melbaThe alpine swift is a species of swift found in Africa, southern Europe, and Asia.

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