African Palm Swift
Cypsiurus parvus
IUCN: Least Concern
Taxonomy
- Order
- Apodiformes
- Family
- Apodidae
- Genus
- Cypsiurus
- eBird Code
- afpswi1
Subspecies (6)
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Cypsiurus parvus brachypterus
Sierra Leone to northeastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, Angola, and Gulf of Guinea islands
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Cypsiurus parvus celer
Mozambique to KwaZulu-Natal
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Cypsiurus parvus hyphaenes
northern Namibia and northern Botswana
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Cypsiurus parvus laemostigma
coastal lowlands of southern Somalia to Mozambique
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Cypsiurus parvus myochrous
southern South Sudan southward to northeastern South Africa
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Cypsiurus parvus parvus
Senegambia eastward to South Sudan, Eritrea, and Ethiopia; also southwestern Saudi Arabia and western Yemen
Data Sources
Bird images and sounds sourced from GBIF, contributed by citizen scientists worldwide under Creative Commons licenses.
Taxonomy data from AviList 2025.