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Vinony's link graph records 121 inbound references to Pallid Swift, and connects out to Africa, Asia and Animalia.
It is catalogued under topics including Apus (bird), Birds described in 1870 and Birds of Europe.
Vinony links it to 45 Wikipedia language editions.
Species
Least Concernvia IUCN
Wikidata facts
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- taxon rank
- species
- IUCN conservation status
- Least Concern
- taxon name
- Apus pallidus
- Commons category
- Apus pallidus
- Commons gallery
- Apus pallidus
- taxon common name
- andarón pálidu
- wingspan
- 0.44
- litter size
- 2.4
- egg incubation period
- 22
- short name
- A. pallidus
- taxon range
- Africa
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Encyclopedic overview
Eggs of Apus pallidus The pallid swift (Apus pallidus) is a swift (order Apodiformes). Swifts have very short legs which they use only for clinging to vertical surfaces. The genus name Apus is Latin for a swift, thought by the ancients to be a type of swallow with no feet (from Ancient Greek α, a, "without", and πούς, pous, "foot"), and pallidus is Latin for "pale". Like other swifts they never settle voluntarily on the ground, but spend most of their lives in the air, living on the insects they catch in their beaks. They drink on the wing.
Taxonomy
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Pallid Swift” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.