common swift

common swift

English

common swift flock in flight

Noun

common swift (plural common swifts)

1. Apus apus, a swallow-like bird native to Europe and much of temperate Asia, rarely alighting on the ground.

Translations

Apus apus

Albanian: dejkë (sq) f Bashkir: ҡара ҡарлуғасы (qara qarluğası) Belarusian: чорны свіргуль m (čórny svirhulʹ) Catalan: falciot negre Czech: rorýs obecný (cs) m Dutch: gierzwaluw (nl) f Esperanto: apuso Estonian: piiritaja Finnish: tervapääsky (fi) French: martinet noir (fr) m German: Mauersegler (de) m Greek: μαυροσταχτάρα f (mavrostachtára) Hungarian: sarlósfecske (hu) Icelandic: múrsvölungur (is) m Japanese: ヨーロッパアマツバメ (yōroppaamatsubame) Kazakh: ნამგალა Kumyk: къайчыкъанат (qayçıqanat) Mongolian: ᠬᠣᠷ᠎ᠠ ᠣᠷᠠᠴᠠᠢ (qor'a oračai̯) Navajo: Tó wónaanídę́ę́ʼ tsxį́į́łnaalkʼįhii Russian: чёрный стриж m (čórnyj striž) Slovak: dážďovník obyčajný (sk) m Spanish: vencejo común m Turkish: kara sağan

Further reading

• common swift on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Apus apus on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Apus apus on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
• Apus_apus at Animal Diversity Web