Swifts (Apodidae)
Pacific Swift (Apus pacificus) - HBW 5, p. 455
French: Martinet de Sibérie
German: Pazifiksegler
Spanish: Vencejo del Pacífico
Other common names: Fork-tailed Swift(!), Pacific Fork-tailed Swift, White-rumped Swift(!), Asian/Large/Northern White-rumped Swift
Taxonomy: Hirundo pacifica Latham, 1801, New South Wales.
Forms superspecies with A. acuticauda, with which in past occasionally considered conspecific. Four subspecies recognized.
Subspecies and Distribution:
- pacificus (Latham, 1801) - Siberia E to Kamchatka and Japan, S to N China and S Japan; winters in Indonesia, Melanesia, Australia and possibly NE India (Assam, Nagaland, Manipur).
- kanoi Yamashina, 1942 - SE Tibet E to Taiwan; winters in Malaysia, Philippines and Indonesia.
- leuconyx (Blyth, 1845) - outer Himalayas and Assam hills; winters in India.
- cooki (Harington, 1913) - SE Asia; winters S to N peninsular Thailand.
- Least Concern Enlarge map
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Several birds in flight (slow motion 50%). Locality Taroko National Park, Taiwan (ssp kanoi)
Josep del Hoyo 23 April 2011 8 weeks ago 46 sec 3 -
A flock wheeling and calling Locality Sakhalin Island, Sakhalin Oblast, Eastern Russia, Russia (ssp pacificus)
Greg Baker 18 June 2009 1 year ago 35 sec 3 -
One in flight Locality Nanhui District, Shanghai, China (Northern) (ssp pacificus)
Martin Kennewell 20 April 2008 3 years ago 17 sec 2
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silhouette of bird in flight
Locality Sawtell, New South Wales, Australia (ssp pacificus)
Mat Gilfedder 4 February 2006 2 years ago 2
- No sound recordings available yet
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