Saturday, March 17, 2018

HOUSE SWIFT

Photographed on Boigu Island, Torres Straits, March 2018.
(* 875)                  HOUSE SWIFT                    Apus nipalensis 

AUSTRALIA                  738

Found in Japan, Nepal and Southeast Asia; vagrant to Australia. Capable of flying long distances by shutting off hemispheres of their brain in-flight. used to be considered a subspecies of Little Swift.












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