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===Distribution=== [[File:ApusApusKlausRoggel02.jpg|thumb|A juvenile, [[apparent death|feigning death]] (thanatosis)]] Common swifts are [[bird migration|migratory]]. Their summer breeding range runs from Portugal and Ireland in the West across to China and Siberia in the East. They breed as far south as Northern Africa (in Morocco and Algeria), with a presence in the Middle East in Israel, Lebanon and Syria, the Near East across Turkey, and the whole of Europe as far north as Norway, Finland, and most of sub-Arctic Russia. Swifts migrate to Africa by a variety of routes, ending up in Equatorial and Sub-Equatorial Africa, excluding the Cape. Common swifts do not breed on the Indian Subcontinent. Outside of their normal range, they are rare [[Vagrancy (biology)|vagrants]] in [[North America]], with records mostly originating from the [[United States]] and [[Canada]], however; it has also been recorded in [[Bermuda]] and [[Greenland]].<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Chantler |first1=Philip |last2=Boesman |first2=Peter F. D. |last3=Kirwan |first3=Guy M. |date=2020 |title=Common Swift (Apus apus), version 1.0 |url=https://birdsoftheworld.org/bow/species/comswi/cur/introduction |journal=Birds of the World |language=en |doi=10.2173/bow.comswi.01 |issn=2771-3105|url-access=subscription }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=AOU Checklist of North and Middle American Birds |url=https://checklist.americanornithology.org/taxa |access-date=2025-02-09 |website=checklist.americanornithology.org}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |title=National Geographic Complete Birds of North America |publisher=[[National Geographic]] |year=2014 |isbn=978-1-4262-1373-1 |editor-last=Dunn |editor-first=Jon Lloyd |page=374 |editor-last2=Alderfer |editor-first2=Jonathan K.}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Riddington |first=Roger |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YyDtDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA77 |title=Birds of the UK Overseas Territories |date=2020-07-23 |publisher=Bloomsbury Publishing |isbn=978-1-4729-7727-4 |page=77 |language=en}}</ref> Common swifts have also been recorded in the [[Caribbean]], including in [[Bonaire]], [[Barbados]], and [[Puerto Rico]].<ref>{{Cite web |date=2020-05-05 |title=ML231426611 - Common Swift - Macaulay Library |url=https://macaulaylibrary.org/asset/231426611 |access-date=2025-02-09 |website=macaulaylibrary.org}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=2017-06-03 |title=ML60465341 - Common Swift - Macaulay Library |url=https://macaulaylibrary.org/asset/60465341 |access-date=2025-02-09 |website=macaulaylibrary.org}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=2015-11-09 |title=ML20941181 - Common Swift - Macaulay Library |url=https://macaulaylibrary.org/asset/20941181 |access-date=2025-02-09 |website=macaulaylibrary.org}}</ref> In [[South America]], there are records in [[Suriname]], [[French Guiana]], [[Brazil]], and [[Colombia]].<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Boer |first1=Marijke De |last2=Saulino |first2=James T. |last3=Williams |first3=Andy W. |date=January 2014 |title=First documented record of Common Swift Apus apus for Suriname and the South American continent. |url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/269274607 |journal=Cotinga |volume=36 |pages=107–109}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Lenrumé |first1=Paul |last2=Claessens |first2=Olivier |last3=d'Orchymont |first3=Quentin |last4=Bertus |first4=Vincent |last5=Cantaloube |first5=Grégory |last6=Tostain |first6=Olivier |last7=Epelboin |first7=Loïc |last8=Kelle |first8=Laurent |last9=Foxonet |first9=Hugo |last10=Wiegers |first10=Johannes N. |date=3 June 2024 |title=Transatlantic vagrancy in northern South America: eight Old World bird taxa new to French Guiana |journal=Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club |language=en |volume=144 |issue=2 |doi=10.25226/bboc.v144i2.2024.a5 |issn=0007-1595 |doi-access=free }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=2023-11-19 |title=ML611975588 - Common Swift - Macaulay Library |url=https://macaulaylibrary.org/asset/611975588 |access-date=2025-02-10 |website=macaulaylibrary.org}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last=de Schauensee |first=Rodolphe Meyer |date=1959 |title=Additions to the "Birds of the Republic of Colombia" |journal=Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia |volume=111 |pages=53–75 |jstor=4064506 |issn=0097-3157}}</ref>
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