Bates's Swift
Apus batesi(Sharpe, RB, 1904)
English (US) Bates's Swift
The Bates's Swift (Apus batesi) 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: humid forest of western Cameroon to northern Gabon and eastern Democratic Republic of the CongoRange summary from AviList, in English.
- Scientific name
- Apus batesi
- Family
- Apodidae (Swifts)
- Order
- Apodiformes
- IUCN Red List
- Least Concern
- English (US)
- Bates's Swift
- Described by
- (Sharpe, RB, 1904)
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Add Your ExpertiseTaxonomic history
- First described as
- Cypselus batesi
- Described by
- (Sharpe, RB, 1904)
- Type locality
- Efulen, Cameroon.
- Original description
- Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club 14 p.63
Nomenclatural data from the AviList checklist, quoted in the language of the original sources.
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