Horus Swift
Apus horus(Heuglin, MT, 1869)
English (US) Horus Swift
The Horus Swift (Apus horus) 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: Nigeria and Cameroon eastward to Ethiopia and southward to western angola and southern South AfricaRange summary from AviList, in English.
- Scientific name
- Apus horus
- Family
- Apodidae (Swifts)
- Order
- Apodiformes
- IUCN Red List
- Least Concern
- English (US)
- Horus Swift
- Described by
- (Heuglin, MT, 1869)
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Add Your ExpertiseTaxonomic history
- First described as
- Cypselus affinis var. Cypselus Horus
- Described by
- (Heuglin, MT, 1869)
- Type locality
- Northeastern Africa.
- Original description
- Ornithologie Nordost-Afrika's, der Nilquellen- und Küsten-Gebiete des Rothen Meeres und des nördlichen Somal-Landes 1 p.147
Nomenclatural data from the AviList checklist, quoted in the language of the original sources.
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