Dark-rumped Swift (Apus acuticauda) - BirdLife species factsheet

Dark-rumped Swift Apus acuticauda

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References

Ahmed, M. F.; Das, A.; Meyase, V. 2007. Khasi Hills Swift Apus acuticauda: First record from Nagaland and Manipur, north-east India. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 104(1): 87-88.

Bird, J.P., Martin, R., Akçakaya, H.R., Gilroy, J., Burfield, I.J., Garnett, S.G., Symes, A., Taylor, J., Şekercioğlu, Ç.H. and Butchart, S.H.M. 2020. Generation lengths of the world’s birds and their implications for extinction risk. Conservation Biology 34(5): 1252-1261. DOI: 10.1111/cobi.13486.

BirdLife International. 2001. Threatened Birds of Asia: the BirdLife International Red Data Book. BirdLife International, Cambridge, U.K.

Chantler, P. 2005. Dark-rumped Swifts: notes on their breeding plumage and how to see them. BirdingASIA: 39-40.

Chantler, P. and G. M. Kirwan. 2020. Dark-rumped Swift (Apus acuticauda), version 1.0. In Birds of the World . Ithaca, NY, USA.

Choudhury, A. 2013. First record of the Dark-rumped or Khasi Hills Swift Apus acuticauda from Arunachal Pradesh. The Newsletter & Journal of the Rhino Foundation for nat. in NE India 9: 65-68.

eBird. 2024. eBird: An online database of bird distribution and abundance [web application]. Ithaca, New York. eBird, Cornell Lab of Ornithology. Available at: http://www.ebird.org.

Global Forest Watch. 2024. Interactive Forest Change Mapping Tool. Available at: http://www.globalforestwatch.org/.

Hansen, M.C., Potapov, P.V., Moore, R., Hancher, M., Turubanova, S.A., Tyukavina, A., Thau, D., Stehman, S.V., Goetz, S.J., Loveland, T.R., Kommareddy, A., Egorov, A., Chini, L., Justice, C.O. and Townshend, J.R.G. 2013. High-resolution global maps of 21st-century forest cover change. Science 342: 850-853.

IUCN. 2024. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2024-2. Available at: https://www.iucnredlist.org. (Accessed: 22 October 2024).

Kasambe, R., Lalthanzara, H., & Sailo, L. 2014. Photofeature Bird survey in Lengteng Wildlife Sanctuary and Blue Mountain (Phawngpui) National Park, Mizoram. Buceros 18(3): 6.

Rasmussen, P.C. and Anderton, J.C. 2012. Birds of South Asia. The Ripley Guide. Vols. 1 2: Attributes and Status. Second Edition. National Museum of Natural History – Smithsonian Institution, Michigan State University and Lynx Edicions, Washington, D.C., Michigan and Barcelona.

Further resources

Detailed species accounts from the Threatened birds of Asia: the BirdLife International Red Data Book (BirdLife International 2001).

Search for photos and videos, and hear sounds of this species from the Macaulay Library

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