Editing Little swift (section)

{{Short description|Species of bird}}
{{Speciesbox
| name = Little swift
| image = Little swift, Apus affinis, at Kruger National Park, South Africa, crop.jpg
| image2 = Apus affinis, swerm sirkel oor Austin Roberts-vr, Pta, a.mp3
| image2_caption = In South Africa
| range_map =ApusAffinisDistribution.png
| range_map_caption = <br/>{{legend0|#00FF32|Summer|border=solid 1px black}} {{legend0|#009865|Resident|border=solid 1px black}}<ref>{{cite book|title=A Guide to the Swifts and Tree Swifts of the World|year=2000|publisher=[[Pica Press]]|isbn=1-873403-83-6|author=Phil Chantler|author2=Gerald Driessens|name-list-style=amp}}</ref>
| status = LC
| status_system = IUCN3.1
| status_ref = <ref name="iucn status 12 November 2021">{{cite iucn |author=BirdLife International |date=2016 |title=''Apus affinis'' |volume=2016 |page=e.T22686856A89562931 |doi=10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T22686856A89562931.en |access-date=12 November 2021}}</ref>
| taxon = Apus affinis
| authority = ([[John Edward Gray|JE Gray]], 1830)
}}

The '''little swift''' ('''''Apus affinis'''''), is a small species of [[Swift (bird)|swift]] found in Africa and [[southwestern Asia]], and are vagrants and local breeders in southern Europe. They are found both in urban areas and at rocky cliffs where they build nests in a way typical of all members of the order [[Apodiformes]]. The genus name ''Apus'' is [[Latin]] for a swift, thought by the ancients to be a type of [[swallow]] without feet (from [[Ancient Greek]] α, ''a'', "without", and πούς, ''pous'', "foot"). The Latin specific ''affinis'' means similar to or related to, but in this case the species that the little swift supposedly resembles is not clear from the description.<ref name=job>{{cite book | last= Jobling | first= James A | year= 2010| title= The Helm Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names | url= https://archive.org/details/Helm_Dictionary_of_Scientific_Bird_Names_by_James_A._Jobling | publisher= Christopher Helm | location = London | isbn = 978-1-4081-2501-4 | pages = [https://archive.org/details/Helm_Dictionary_of_Scientific_Bird_Names_by_James_A._Jobling/page/n35 35], 52}}</ref> A population formerly considered to be an eastern subspecies of little swift is now separated as a distinct species, the [[house swift]] ([[House swift|''Apus nipalensis'']]).