Pacific swift

The Pacific swift (Apus pacificus)  is a bird in the Swift family (Apodidae). It has four subspecies. The number of pacific swifts is unknown. They live in East Asia and Oceania.

This bird is medium-sized.  its body is 18 to 21 cm long and it is 40-42 cm wide from wingtip to wingtip.  Its feathers are mostly black, but it has a band of white feathers on its rear end.  Its tail is forked, or split into two pieces.  It can fly at least 300 m up in the air.  It looks for food over open areas, towns, grasslands or even sand dunes near the ocean.  It eats insects that it catches in the air.

 Distribution 
The pacific swft has a large range of nearly 10 million square kilometers (3.8 million square miles). These birds live throughout the eastern Asia from the Ob River northeast to Kamchatka and east to the Kuril Islands, Sakhalin and Japan.Chantler & Driessens (2000) pp. 235–237.

References

Category:Apodiformes
Category:Birds of Asia
Category:Birds of Oceania