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White-rumped Swift
Apus caffer · Family Apodidae
Apus caffer
Family Apodidae
- Order
- Apodiformes
- Family
- Apodidae
- GBIF occurrence records
- 202,113
- Countries and territories with records
- 87
About this species
This species has 202,113 occurrence records from 87 countries and territories (GBIF, 21 October 2026). Most records come from South Africa (83.1%), Kenya (4.4%), Uganda (2.4%), Tanzania (2.1%) and Spain (1.7%); together they account for 93.5% of the total. In South Africa, this species accounts for 0.42% of all bird records in GBIF.
The scientific name Apus caffer combines the genus name Apus with the species epithet caffer. The Warbla app catalog lists 19 species of the genus Apus; apart from this one, those with the most GBIF records are Apus apus, Apus affinis and Apus nipalensis.
The catalog has GBIF record counts for 96 species of the family Apodidae. This species ranks 12th among them; the family’s most-recorded species is Chaetura pelagica. Its record count is 1.6 times the family average (123,580). The family Apodidae belongs to the order Apodiformes, which has 452 species in the Warbla app catalog.