African Black Swift

Taxonomy

Order

Apodiformes

Family

Apodidae

Genus

Apus

eBird Code

afrswi1

Subspecies (7)

• Apus barbatus barbatus

  South Africa

• Apus barbatus glanvillei

  Sierra Leone and possibly adjacent Liberia and Ivory Coast; small breeding population discovered in Ghana perhaps extends to adjacent Togo

• Apus barbatus hollidayi

  Victoria Falls area on Zambia/Zimbabwe border

• Apus barbatus oreobates

  Zimbabwe and Mozambique (Mount Gorongoza)

• Apus barbatus roehli

  northeastern Uganda and northern Kenya to eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo and Malawi; northeastern Angola

• Apus barbatus serlei

  western Cameroon (Bamenda Plateau)

• Apus barbatus sladeniae

  locally in southeastern Nigeria, western Cameroon, Bioko Island, and western Angola