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- Horus_Swift abstract "The Horus Swift (Apus horus) is a small bird in the swift family. It breeds in sub-Saharan Africa. It has an extensive continuous distribution from eastern and southern South Africa north to southern Zambia and central Mozambique, and has recently colonised the De Hoop Nature Reserve area of the Western Cape.It also occurs very discontinuously in much of the rest of the sub-Saharan region, with the Ethiopian mountains and the area from central Kenya into Uganda having large populations. Identification difficulties confuse the limits of this species’ range.Birds in South Africa are migratory, wintering further north. Other populations are resident apart from local movements.The Horus Swift breeds in old burrows of bee-eaters, Ground Woodpeckers, kingfishers and martins, which are typically in natural or artificial sandy banks. The flat nest of vegetation and hair, glued with saliva is built at the end of the tunnel and 1-4 eggs are laid. The eggs are incubated for 28 days to hatching, and the fledging period is about 6 weeks.This species is not colonial, but the nature of its breeding habitat means that a number of pairs may be scattered through a bee-eater or Banded Martin colony. It feeds at middle levels over adjacent habitats, but avoids large towns.The Horus Swift is 13–15 cm long and quite bulky. It appears entirely blackish except for a white patch on the chin and a white rump. It has a medium length forked tail. It has a fluttering flight like Little Swift. Little Swift has a square tail, and more extensive white on the rump than Horus, and White-rumped Swift has a more deeply forked tail and a narrower white band. The call is a buzzing peeeeooo, peeeeooo.The paler subspecies A. h. fuscobrunneus of southwestern Angola has a small grey throat patch and a brown rump. The form toulsoni of northwestern Angola and Zimbabwe is a dark morph of nominate A. h. horus, with a dark rump and small throat patch. Both dark forms have sometimes been split as separate species.Horus, whose name this bird commemorates, was the ancient Egyptian god of the sun, son of Osiris and Isis.".
- Horus_Swift binomialAuthority Theodor_von_Heuglin.
- Horus_Swift class Bird.
- Horus_Swift conservationStatus "LC".
- Horus_Swift conservationStatusSystem "IUCN3.1".
- Horus_Swift family Swift.
- Horus_Swift genus Apus_(genus).
- Horus_Swift kingdom Animal.
- Horus_Swift order Apodiformes.
- Horus_Swift phylum Chordate.
- Horus_Swift thumbnail ApusHorus_RobertWienand.jpg?width=300.
- Horus_Swift wikiPageID "10032646".
- Horus_Swift wikiPageRevisionID "588894018".
- Horus_Swift binomial "Apus horus".
- Horus_Swift classis Bird.
- Horus_Swift familia Swift.
- Horus_Swift genus "Apus".
- Horus_Swift hasPhotoCollection Horus_Swift.
- Horus_Swift imageCaption "Horus Swift in South Luangwa National Park, Zambia".
- Horus_Swift name "Horus Swift".
- Horus_Swift ordo Apodiformes.
- Horus_Swift phylum Chordate.
- Horus_Swift regnum "Animalia".
- Horus_Swift species "A. horus".
- Horus_Swift status "LC".
- Horus_Swift statusSystem "IUCN3.1".
- Horus_Swift subject Category:Apus_(genus).
- Horus_Swift subject Category:Birds_of_Cameroon.
- Horus_Swift subject Category:Birds_of_South_Africa.
- Horus_Swift type Animal100015388.
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- Horus_Swift type BirdsOfSouthAfrica.
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- Horus_Swift type Eukaryote.
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- Horus_Swift comment "The Horus Swift (Apus horus) is a small bird in the swift family. It breeds in sub-Saharan Africa. It has an extensive continuous distribution from eastern and southern South Africa north to southern Zambia and central Mozambique, and has recently colonised the De Hoop Nature Reserve area of the Western Cape.It also occurs very discontinuously in much of the rest of the sub-Saharan region, with the Ethiopian mountains and the area from central Kenya into Uganda having large populations.".
- Horus_Swift label "Horus Swift".
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- Horus_Swift sameAs Horus_Swift.
- Horus_Swift wasDerivedFrom Horus_Swift?oldid=588894018.
- Horus_Swift depiction ApusHorus_RobertWienand.jpg.
- Horus_Swift isPrimaryTopicOf Horus_Swift.
- Horus_Swift name "Horus Swift".