page_title: List of birds of the Gambia
section_title: Swifts
hierarchical_section_title: List of birds of the Gambia / Swifts
caption_attribution_description: English: African Palm Swift (Cypsiurus parvus) in flight taken by en:User:Dawidl in en:Rivonia (en:Johannesburg), en:South Africa.
context_page_description: This is a list of the bird species recorded in the Gambia. The avifauna of the Gambia include a total of 576 species, one of which has been introduced by humans and two of which are globally threatened. The country, which is very small and almost completely surrounded by Senegal, has no endemic species.
  The following tags have been used to highlight several categories. Not all species will fall into one of these categories. Those that do not are commonly occurring native species.
  Accidental - a species that rarely or accidentally occurs in the Gambia
  (I) Introduced - a species introduced to the Gambia as a consequence, direct or indirect, of human actions
context_section_description: Order: Caprimulgiformes   Family: Apodidae
  Mottled spinetail, Telacanthura ussheri
  African palm-swift, Cypsiurus parvus
  Alpine swift, Tachymarptis melba
  Common swift, Apus apus
  Pallid swift, Apus pallidus
  Little swift, Apus affinis
  White-rumped swift, Apus caffer
caption: African palm-swift (Cypsiurus parvus)
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