Scarce Swift

When to see the Scarce Swift

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

Where to see the Scarce Swift

The map shades 11 countries with regular records, and 4 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 Finland, Angola, Zambia, Germany.

About the Scarce Swift

The scarce swift is a species of swift in the family Apodidae. It has a disjunct range of presence throughout the Afromontane : Cameroon line, Albertine Rift montane forests, Kenya, Tanzania, Malawi and Mozambique.

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

Easily confused with

Sabine's SpinetailRhaphidura sabiniSabine's spinetail is a species of swift in the family Apodidae. Mountain SwiftletAerodramus hirundinaceusThe mountain swiftlet is a species of swift in the family Apodidae. Black-nest SwiftletAerodramus maximusThe black-nest swiftlet is a species of swift in the family Apodidae.