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User Albums Favorites www.BirdPhotos.com Genus Apus       IUCN and region codes at bottom of page. Species Family Scientific name Breeding Regions Breeding Subregions Nonbreeding Subregions - APODIFORMES   African Black Swift i    Apodidae    Apus barbatus  AF s, e  Bates's Swift i    Apodidae    Apus batesi  AF Sierra Leone to Ivory Coast; Cameroon to Gabon  Blyth's Swift i    Apodidae    Apus leuconyx  PAL, OR mid to high altitudes in Pakistan, Nepal, Bhutan and ne India some winter at lower altitudes in Nepal and peninsular India  Bradfield's Swift i U    Apodidae    Apus bradfieldi  AF sw  Cape Verde Swift i    Apodidae    Apus alexandri  AF Cape Verde Is. (all islands; s Macaronesia, w of n Africa)  Common Swift i U    Apodidae    Apus apus  PAL widespread s AF  Cook's Swift i U    Apodidae    Apus cooki  OR lowland Myanmar, n Thailand, Vietnam and Guangxi, China Laos, Vietnam, Cambodia, Myanmar and Thailand  Dark-rumped Swift (VU)  i    Apodidae    Apus acuticauda  OR ne India and Myanmar  Fernando Po Swift (DD)  i    Apodidae    Apus sladeniae  AF sw Nigeria, w Cameroon, w Angola and Bioko  Forbes-Watson's Swift i    Apodidae    Apus berliozi  AF e  Horus Swift i    Apodidae    Apus horus  AF Nigeria and Cameroon to Ethiopia through e DR Congo and Zambia to South Africa. Also sw Angola.  House Swift i U    Apodidae    Apus nipalensis  OR also s Japan  Little Swift i    Apodidae    Apus affinis  AF, OR Africa, sw Asia and India  Malagasy Black Swift i    Apodidae    Apus balstoni  AF Comoros and Madagascar  Nyanza Swift i    Apodidae    Apus niansae  AF e  Pacific Swift i    Apodidae    Apus pacificus  PAL c Siberia and Mongolia through Kamchatka (se Russia) and Japan OR, AU  Pallid Swift i U    Apodidae    Apus pallidus  PAL, AF s Europe, Arabian Pen. and n AF c, w AF  Plain Swift i    Apodidae    Apus unicolor  AF Madeira (all islands) and Canary Is. (all islands; nc to c Macaronesia, nw of n Africa); may breed adjacent Moroccan coast to adjacent Moroccan coast  Salim Ali's Swift i    Apodidae    Apus salimalii  PAL e Tibetan Plateau and adjacent w Sichuan  White-rumped Swift i    Apodidae    Apus caffer  PAL, AF s Iberian Peninsula, c Morocco, and sub-Saharan Africa 20%   4 species of 20 (0 extinct).   IUCN Status Codes EX Extinct EW Extinct in the wild CR Critically Endangered EN Endangered VU Vulnerable NT Near Threatened LC Least Concern DD Data deficient NE Not evaluated LC not shown.   Breeding Range Codes AF Africa (entire continent rather than south of Sahara) AN Antarctica AO Atlantic Ocean AU Australasia (Wallacea (Indonesian islands east of Wallace's line), New Guinea and its islands, Australia, New Zealand and its subantarctic islands, the Solomons, New Caledonia, and Vanuatu) PAL Eurasia (Europe, Asia from the Middle East through central Asia north of the Himalayas, Siberia and northern China to Japan) IO Indian Ocean LA Latin America (Middle and South America) MA Middle America (Mexico through Panama) NA North America (includes the Caribbean) NO Northern oceans OR Oriental Region (South Asia from Pakistan to Taiwan, plus Southeast Asia, the Philippines, and Greater Sundas) PO Pacific Ocean SA South America SO Southern oceans TO Temperate oceans TrO Tropical oceans Worldwide Worldwide