Common Swift
Apus apus
- Class
- Bird
- Rarity
- Common
- Observations
- 20,442
- Most observed in
- 🇷🇺 Russia
- Conservation
- Least Concern
Description
The common swift is a medium-sized bird, superficially similar to the barn swallow or house martin but somewhat larger, though not stemming from those passerine species, being in the order Apodiformes. The resemblances between the groups are due to convergent evolution, reflecting similar contextual development. The swifts' nearest relatives are the New World hummingbirds and the Southeast Asian treeswifts.
Summary adapted from the Wikipedia article “Common swift”.