Dark-rumped Swift
Apus acuticauda(Jerdon, TC, 1864)
English (US) Dark-rumped Swift
The Dark-rumped Swift (Apus acuticauda) is a bird species documented in the AviList Global Avian Checklist. On BirdGuides.io, 0 professional guides specialise in helping birdwatchers observe this species. It belongs to the family Apodidae (Swifts) in the order Apodiformes.
Range: breeds eastern Bhutan and northeastern India; winters to northern ThailandRange summary from AviList, in English.
- Scientific name
- Apus acuticauda
- Family
- Apodidae (Swifts)
- Order
- Apodiformes
- IUCN Red List
- Near Threatened
- English (US)
- Dark-rumped Swift
- Described by
- (Jerdon, TC, 1864)
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Add Your ExpertiseTaxonomic history
- First described as
- Cypselus acuticauda
- Described by
- (Jerdon, TC, 1864)
- Type locality
- Nepal.
- Original description
- The birds of India; being a natural history of all the birds known to inhabit continental India: with descriptions of the species, genera, families, tribes, and orders, and a brief notice of such families as are not found in India, making it a manual of ornithology specially adapted for India 3 ("2 pt2") p.870
Nomenclatural data from the AviList checklist, quoted in the language of the original sources.
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