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.

LITTLE SWIFT

Subspecies singalensis, photographed March 2017

1242            LITTLE SWIFT                    Apus affinis

SRI LANKA                61    

Often found near large rocky outcrops. 15 cm. Fairly common breeding resident rather locally from from lowlands up to high hills. 

HOUSE SWIFT

Photographed on Lombok, Indonesia October 2016 

(875)              HOUSE SWIFT                    Apus nipalensis 

INDONESIA (Lombok)          (98)        

Also known as Little Swift. 15 cm. Hunts for insects on the wing over open country and marshy areas, rarely near forests. Distribution: Africa, tropical and subtropical Eurasia: widespread and locally common resident in Sumatra, kalimantan, Java and Bali; has recently expanded to parts of Wallacea.