Sabine's Spinetail (Rhaphidura sabini) | Photos and ID

LCLeast ConcernInvertebrates

ForestCavity nestSmall · 16 g

Sabine's Spinetail (Rhaphidura sabini), photo 2 — Photo: Tommy Andriollo · CC BY 4.0

When to see the Sabine's Spinetail

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 Sabine's Spinetail

Regular range

The map shades 14 countries with regular records. Everything unshaded has no records. Countries are listed below the map.

Ghana Uganda Côte d’Ivoire Gabon Equatorial Guinea Cameroon Congo - Brazzaville Congo - Kinshasa Central African Republic Sierra Leone Nigeria Liberia Kenya Guinea

About the Sabine's Spinetail

Sabine's spinetail is a species of swift in the family Apodidae. It is widespread across the African tropical rainforest.

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

Easily confused with

Silver-rumped SpinetailRhaphidura leucopygialisThe silver-rumped spinetail or silver-rumped needletail is a species of swift in the family Apodidae.

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