Pacific swift
| Pacific swift | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Apodiformes |
| Family: | Apodidae |
| Genus: | Apus (genus) |
| Species: | A. pacificus |
| Binomial name | |
| Apus pacificus (Latham, 1801)[2] | |
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Breeding range (ranges are approximate)Breeding range of three former subspecies Non-breeding | |
The Pacific swift (Apus pacificus) is a bird in the Swift family (Apodidae). It has four subspecies. The number of pacific swifts is unknown. They live in East Asia and Oceania.[1]
This bird is medium-sized. its body is 18 to 21 cm long and it is 40-42 cm wide from wingtip to wingtip. Its feathers are mostly black, but it has a band of white feathers on its rear end. Its tail is forked, or split into two pieces. It can fly at least 300 m up in the air. It looks for food over open areas, towns, grasslands or even sand dunes near the ocean. It eats insects that it catches in the air.[3]
Distribution
[change | change source]The pacific swft has a large range of nearly 10 million square kilometers (3.8 million square miles).[4] These birds live throughout the eastern Asia from the Ob River northeast to Kamchatka and east to the Kuril Islands, Sakhalin and Japan.[5]
References
[change | change source]- 1 2 BirdLife International (2016). "Pacific swift: Apus pacificus". The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2019: e.T22686845A155438660. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T22686845A155438660.en. Retrieved August 17, 2021.
- ↑ "Apus pacificus". ITIS. Retrieved August 17, 2021.
- ↑ "Apus pacificus — Fork-tailed Swift". Australian Government: Department of Agriculture, Water, and the Environment. Retrieved August 17, 2021.
- ↑ "Fork-tailed Swift Apus pacificus". Species factsheet. BirdLife International. Archived from the original on 31 October 2013. Retrieved 24 February 2022.
- ↑ Chantler & Driessens (2000) pp. 235–237.
