#0635 · 🐦 birds

Common Swift

🇳🇱 Gierzwaluw ·Apus apus

LCleast concern 🐦 Birds 📍 in the Netherlands

9 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences

1. © Алексей Эбель · CC BY-NC 4.0
2. © juan manuel pérez rayego · CC BY-NC 4.0
3. © ruzovdmitry · CC BY-NC 4.0
4. © Константин Селивёрстов · CC BY 4.0
5. © Антон Виноградов · CC BY-NC 4.0
6. © Michel NOËL · CC BY-NC 4.0
7. © olegglushenkov · CC BY-NC 4.0
8. © Ina Siebert · CC BY-NC 4.0
9. © Damiano · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0

what is it?

The common swift ( Apus apus ) 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 thought to be the New World hummingbirds and the Southeast Asian treeswifts.

base stats

NL sightings 400iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 38,499iNaturalist observations
weight 3.5 gadult, up to
threat LCleast concern

Bars compare against all animals on log scales: up to 300,000 Dutch and 600,000 worldwide sightings (the most-seen species), 150 t (blue whale), 30 m and 400 years (Greenland shark).