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House Swift
Apus nipalensis · Family Apodidae
Apus nipalensis
Family Apodidae
- Order
- Apodiformes
- Family
- Apodidae
- GBIF occurrence records
- 265,416
- Countries and territories with records
- 28
About this species
This species has 265,416 occurrence records from 28 countries and territories (GBIF, 21 October 2026). Most records come from Taiwan (64.9%), Thailand (8.3%), Hong Kong (4.8%), Malaysia (3.8%) and China (3.3%); together they account for 85.1% of the total. In Taiwan, this species accounts for 0.82% of all bird records in GBIF.
The scientific name Apus nipalensis combines the genus name Apus with the species epithet nipalensis. 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 pallidus.
The catalog has GBIF record counts for 96 species of the family Apodidae. This species ranks 10th among them; the family’s most-recorded species is Chaetura pelagica. Its record count is 2.1 times the family average (123,580). The family Apodidae belongs to the order Apodiformes, which has 452 species in the Warbla app catalog.