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Tachymarptis melba · Family Apodidae

Tachymarptis melba

Family Apodidae

Order
Apodiformes
Family
Apodidae
GBIF occurrence records
272,131
Countries and territories with records
130
Alpine Swift
Lefteris Stavrakas · Βουνοσταχτάρα Alpine Swift Tachymarptis melba.jpg · CC BY-SA 2.0 · Lefteris Stavrakas · CC BY-SA 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons · Recordings may be trimmed and re-encoded; photos are cropped and resized.
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About this species

This species has 272,131 occurrence records from 130 countries and territories (GBIF, 21 October 2026). Most records come from Spain (22.6%), South Africa (16.8%), France (13.7%), Türkiye (6.9%) and India (6.1%); together they account for 66.1% of the total. In Spain, this species accounts for 0.12% of all bird records in GBIF.

The scientific name Tachymarptis melba combines the genus name Tachymarptis with the species epithet melba. The Warbla app catalog lists one other species of the genus Tachymarptis: Tachymarptis aequatorialis.

The catalog has GBIF record counts for 96 species of the family Apodidae. This species ranks 9th among them; the family’s most-recorded species is Chaetura pelagica. Its record count is 2.2 times the family average (123,580). The family Apodidae belongs to the order Apodiformes, which has 452 species in the Warbla app catalog.

More birds in the family Apodidae

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