Fork-tailed swift
Appearance
Fork-tailed Swift is the historic name of a kind of bird which has since been divided taxonomically into four species. It could refer to the following 4 species of swifts:
- Pacific Swift, Apus pacificus
- Salim Ali's Swift, Apus salimali. A 2011 study has many taxonomists splitting this species from the Fork-tailed Swift complex.[1]
- Blyth's Swift, Apus leuconyx
- Cook's Swift, Apus cooki
References
- ^ Leader, P J. (2011). "Taxonomy of the Pacific Swift Apus pacificus Latham, 1802, complex". Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club. 131: 81–93.