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	African Palm Swift - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The African Palm Swift (Cypsiurus parvus) is a small swift.
		It is very similar to the Asian Palm Swift, Cypsiurus balasiensis, and was formerly considered to be the same species.
		Palm Swifts have very short legs which they use only for clinging to vertical surfaces, since swifts never settle voluntarily on the ground.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/African_Palm_Swift (220 words)

	AllRefer.com - swift (Vertebrate Zoology) - Encyclopedia
		Some Asian swifts make their entire nest of a salivary secretion; these are the nests that are used to make bird's-nest soup.
		gigantea) of India and the Philippines; the scissor-tailed swift (Panyptila sancti-Hieronymi) of Guatemala; the white-rumped swift (Apus caffer) of Africa; and the palm swift (Cypsiurus parvus) of SE Asia.
		Swifts are classified in the phylum Chordata, subphylum Vertebrata, class Aves, order Apodiformes, families Apodidae (swifts) and Hemiprocnidae (crested swifts).
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/S/swift.html (392 words)

	Asian Palm Swift - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		It is very similar to the African Palm Swift, Cypsiurus parvus, and was formerly considered to be the same species.
		Asian Palm Swift has very short legs which it uses only for clinging to vertical surfaces, since swifts never settle voluntarily on the ground.
		Asian Palm Swifts often feed near the ground, and they drink on the wing.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Asian_Palm_Swift (240 words)

	Knowledge King - Swift (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		The swifts are the most aerial of birds, some, like the Common Swift even sleeping on the wing.
		Like swallows and martins, the swifts of temperate regions are strongly migratory, and they winter in the tropics.
		Many swifts have a characteristic shape, with a short forked tail and very long swept-back wings that resemble a crescent or a boomerang.
	www.knowledgeking.net /encyclopedia/s/sw/swift_1.html (222 words)

	Encyclopedia: SWIFT
		The swifts are the most aerial of birds and some, like the Common Swift, even sleep and mate on the wing.
		They are superficially similar to swallows but are completely unrelated to those passerine species, since swifts are in the separate order Apodiformes, which they formerly shared with the hummingbirds.
		Swifts remain in that order, but hummingbirds are put into a new order, Trochiliformes.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/SWIFT (1056 words)

	BANGLAPEDIA: Swift (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Swift (batasi) any of about 100 species of small birds, usually dark brown or sooty with some areas of white or gray; long, scythe-like wings and small feet of the family Apodidae, order Apodiformes.
		Swifts, with their narrow swept-back wings, have a well-deserved reputation for being among the fastest flying birds.
		The salivary glands of the swifts enlarge during the breeding season to produce a sticky material, which in some species is used to glue together small sticks to form the nest and also to attach it to the vertical wall of a hollow-tree nesting site.
	banglapedia.org /HT/S_0641.htm (424 words)

	Asian Palm Swift -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		The Asian Palm Swift (Cypsiurus balasiensis) is a small (Small plain-colored bird that resembles a swallow and is noted for its rapid flight) swift.
		It is very similar to the (Click link for more info and facts about African Palm Swift) African Palm Swift, Cypsiurus parvus, and was formerly considered to be the same species.
		This is a bird of open country and cultivation, which is strongly associated with (Pinnate-leaved palms of the genus Elaeis having dense clusters of crowded flowers and bright red fruit and yielding high quality palm oils) Oil Palms.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/A/As/Asian_Palm_Swift.htm (310 words)

	swift on Encyclopedia.com
		Swift's corrected copy of 'Contests and Dissensions,' with other pamphlets from his library.(Jonathan Swift)
		First swift fox, Vulpes velox, reintroduction in the USA: results of the first two years.
		Sermons on sermonizing: the pulpit rhetoric of Swift and Sterne.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/s1/swift.asp (680 words)

	Articles - Swift (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		The swifts are birds superficially similar to swallows but are completely unrelated to those passerine species; swifts are in the separate order Apodiformes, which they formerly shared with the hummingbirds.
		The resemblances between the swifts and swallows are due to convergent evolution reflecting similar life styles based on catching insects in flight.
		The tradition of depicting swifts without feet continued into the Middle Ages, as see in the heraldic martlet.
	www.bird-center.net /articles/Swift (327 words)

	Drift Seeds and Drift Fruits
		Seeds of the Asian coral tree (Erythrina variegata) are buoyant in seawater and may have drifted to distant shores of the tropical Pacific.
		In the swift current of Ecuador's Guayas River, trees, branches, and large mats of vegetation broken loose from riverbeds are commonly carried out to sea.
		This palm has been listed by some authors as the longest undivided leaf of any plant; however, according to Chuck Hubbuch of Fairchild Tropical Garden, Coral Gables, Florida, the leaf is typically divided shallowly at the tip and is not truly entire.
	waynesword.palomar.edu /pldec398.htm (7059 words)

	ACT
		Asian Palm Swift Cypsiurus batasiensis A flock over palms at Gorumara on 22/11 and also seen at Phulbari Barrage.
		House Swift Apus affinis Four seen at Kalimpong on 26/11 were of the nipalensis subspecies, showing a slightly more forked tail than the “Little Swift” found over most of the subcontinent.
		Asian Barred Owlet Glaucidium cuculoides One presumed calling at Gorumara Jungle Camp during the night of 21-22/11 and one seen well at Gorumara the following morning, being heavily mobbed by passerines (including Ruby-cheeked Sunbirds).
	www.actnowornever.org /birding_in_nb3.html (819 words)

	Malaysia
		A number of Asian Paradise Flycatchers flitted through the branches, their long tails flowing behind, and one of them was the rare white morph, a beautiful sight.
		A little further we stopped at a temple cut into the limestone rocks, and in the fading light, saw both the Blue Rock Thrush, and a Blue Whistling Thrush.
		I watched hundreds of House Swifts fly past my hotel window, while I waited for my ride the next day.Before leaving Ipoh we stopped at the golf course where we were treated to the sight of a pair of Oriental Honey Buzzards.
	www.ontfin.com /Trips/Malaysia/Malaysia.htm (868 words)

	ThailandBirding (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		No sign of the Vinous-breasted Starling, but a mid-afternoon visit to this smallish city park yielded many birds that we didn't see much of elsewhere in Thailand.
		Asian Koel, Alexandrine Parakeet, Peaceful Dove, Little Egret, Large-billed Crow, Pied Fantail, Oriental Magpie Robin, Black-collared Starling, Common and White-vented Myna, Streak-eared Bulbul, Scarlet-backed Flowerpecker, Olive-backed Sunbird, Eurasian Tree Sparrow.
		She's only been leading tours for a couple of years, and doesn't yet have good enough optics to get into the heavy-duty species like Phylloscopus, but is already a very good guide.
	wholewideworld.tripod.com /ThailandBirding.htm (1540 words)

	Pinkmoose Birding
		Some of the tallest palms had Ashy Woodswallows wheeling around them (these birds seemed to prefer tall palms with leaves only at the top and with bare trunks) and the paddyfields held Little, Intermediate and Great Egrets plus numerous Indian Pond Herons and one Cinnamon Bittern.
		At the river area I had one Asian Brown Flycatcher, Eurasian Curlew, Grey Plover, one Marsh Sandpiper, a few Yellow-wattled Lapwings, River Tern, four adult and one immature Great Black-headed Gulls and five Pintail Snipe.
		Asian Palm Swifts flew overhead, five Richard's Pipits sat on telegraph wires and jumped in the air singing vigorously.
	www.pinkmoose.ic24.net /india/pondy.htm (754 words)

	Thailand May 2004
		Common and White-vented Mynas were all over the grass, joined by the odd Black-collared and Asian Pied Starlings.
		One of the species I did want to see was Asian Openbill.
		Peter was confident of seeing quite a few of those and sure enough, we had hardly left Bangkok when we saw the first Asian Openbills* flying over the Highway.
	www.freewebs.com /hannostamm/thailand_may_2005.htm (1120 words)

	WORLDTWITCH - Birding in Sichuan & Yunnan, China by Frank Rheindt
		Some of the species that were seen widely in Wolong National Park include: Barn Swallow, Asian House Martin, Blue-fronted and Daurian Redstart, Large-billed Crow and Fork-tailed Swift.
		Mabian County in the extreme south of Sichuan holds avian promise in the form of a couple of South Sichuanese lowland forest endemics that are on the verge of extinction: Golden-fronted Fulvetta and Sichuan Partridge.
		Additionally, a family of Orange-headed Thrush, a pair of Red-faced Liocichla (lush forest edge), a few Red-billed Scimitar-Babblers, a male Large Niltava, a Stripe-breasted Woodpecker, a female Asian Emerald Cuckoo and a male Chestnut-winged Cuckoo were much to my delight.
	www.worldtwitch.com /china_rheindt.htm (10293 words)

	Resources on the Asian White-backed Vulture from academic institutions
		Veterinary researcher helps determine cause of rare vulture deaths:...research project that concluded the decline of three Asian vulture species is...
		Lumbini Crane Sanctuary: A Model of Local Conservation Initiative: The Asian Crane congress, 1989, also recommended LDT set aside some of...
		HistCite - index: JC Avise:...and biogeography of the Southeast Asian genus Caryota...
	mongabay.org /conservation/Asian_White-backed_Vulture.htm (438 words)

	Birdwatch.ph : Birding Activity (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Behind the house are a few coffee trees, coconut palms, some fruit trees and a fallow field.
		I managed to see a small, brown bird in a coconut palm but I doubt that was the species I was looking for.
		It would fly beyond the stand of coconut palms and join two Woodswallows hawking for insects there.
	www.birdwatch.ph /articles/reportkapatalan.html (1324 words)

	Encyclopedia: Asian Palm Swift
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	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Asian-Palm-Swift (279 words)

	birdwatching trip report - Philippines - surfbirds.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Olive-backed Sunbirds were common in the palms in the 4 days spent on or near the beach.
		On the trail that went along a mountain side, we met another guide that was the forest keeper and lived there in a small shack with his family.
		We had Asian Glossy Starling, Coleto, Brown Shrike, Malaysian (Pied) Fantail, Philippine Bulbul, Yellow-vented Bulbul, Philippine Coucal, Arctic Warbler, Variable Forest Kingfisher, Crimson Sunbird, Olived-backed Sunbird, Mangrove Blue Flycatcher,on the trail into the forest and then the bird that made the trip for me, the Cebu Flowerpecker.
	www.surfbirds.com /mb/trips/philippines-0402-im.html (1908 words)

	Singapore 1996
		On a recent business trip to various Asian countries I was fortunate enough to have some time for birding in Singapore.
		High overhead I could not make out precisely what species of small swifts and swallows were flying about.
		An ASIAN BROWN FLYCATCHER was flycatching at the top of a large tree.
	www.camacdonald.com /birding/tripreports/Singapore96.html (3353 words)

	BIRDCHAT archives -- October 2001, week 4 (#81)
		We waited on the esplanade above the river while Komol spent approxiamately two hours in the bank, presumably changing our dollars or arranging wire transfers.
		Pacific Swallows were nesting under the esplanade and Asian Palm-Swifts in the palm trees.
		Dai approached us hoping that we would take his boat to the mangroves.
	listserv.arizona.edu /cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind0110d&L=birdchat&F=&S=&P=8430 (646 words)

	Bird watching Trip Report from Sri Lanka (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Two birds seen on 7/1 and 9/1 in Sinharaja and 2 birds in Kitulgala on 19/1.
		One bird seen for just a few seconds in Sinharaja just before the Forest Station on 7/1 and one bird gave excellent views for more then 10 minutes in Kitulgala near the small store in the top of a palm tree on 19/1.
		White and brown morph observed at Bodhinagala, Sinharaja, Yala, Horton Plains and Colombo.
	www.birdtours.co.uk /tripreports/sri-lanka/sri5/sri-jan2001.htm (3491 words)

	Surfbirds Birding Trip Report: Cambodia: 12-29 March 2005 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Birds not seen elsewhere in Cambodia were House Swift, Fork-tailed Swift, Asian Barred Owlet, Japanese Sparrowhawk, pandoo (blue-bellied) Blue Rock Thrush, and Silver-backed Needletail.
		I saw my only Asian Paradise Flycatcher of the trip at the base of the hill on the way back to town.
		I spent the last few minutes of daylight and the first hour of the next day (before my bus back to PP) birding near the lake behind town which is known for Asian Golden Weavers, which I missed (with more time I surely would have seen it).
	www.surfbirds.com /trip_report.php?id=752 (2684 words)

	Birds: Apodidae
		Cypseloides lemosi Eisenmann and Lehmann, 1963 - White-chested Swift
		Chaetura fumosa Salvin, 1870 - Costa Rican Swift
		Aeronautes andecolus (d´Orbigny and Lafresnaye, 1837) - Andean Swift
	www.phthiraptera.org /Birds/Apodidae.html (395 words)

	Tour Details (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		The resthouse at Kitulgala is picturesquely situated on the banks of the Kelani River, where ‘Bridge over the River Kwai' was filmed.
		A good way to locate birds in the forest is to listen for the sounds of mixed feeding parties.
		Mammals are not conspicuous but we should see troops of endemic Purple-faced Leaf Monkeys moving through the canopy and we may also encounter the impressive Sri Lanka Giant Squirrel.
	www.birdquest.co.uk /tours_easybird_detail.cfm?TourID=394 (2259 words)

	Vietnam 1998/99
		Asian House Martin (Delichon dasypus) 2 seen near the first peak at MLB.
		Asian Brown Flycatcher (Muscicapa dauurica) 1 seen at DLI (DO'M).
		Asian Paradise Flycatcher (Terpsiphone paradisi) A male was seen at NBCT.
	www.camacdonald.com /birding/tripreports/Vietnam98.html (12433 words)

	[No title]
		Little Swift - t l Red-headed Trogon Harpactes erythrocephalus - t - Ward's Trogon Harpactes wardi k - - Small Blue Kingfisher Alcedo atthis.....
		Asian Fairy-bluebird - t l Brown Shrike Lanius cristatus k - - Rufous-backed Shrike Lanius schach.....
		Chestnut-tailed Starling k - l Asian Pied Starling Sturnus contra k - l Common Myna Acridotheres tristis k - - Jungle Myna Acridotheres fuscus k - - Great-tufted Myna Acridotheres grandis.....
	www.princeton.edu /~vivekt/trips/KaziPakkeEaglenest.html (2221 words)

	Borneo 2003 trip list
		Two large all-dark swifts seen from the overlook of a GK waterfall were apparently this species.
		Four were over the pond at our Sepilok resort and then several were seen from our balcony at BRL as they foraged low over the Danum River.
		A small group (4-5) of these huge swifts were feeding among the little swiftlets on the Kinabatangan River at Sukau; they dipped down to the water surface giving us great views.
	montereybay.com /creagrus/Borneo2003list.html (10140 words)

	Les oiseaux Apodidés
		African Palm Swift, Cypsiurus parvus, Martinet des palmes
		Cape Verde Swift, Apus alexandri, Martinet du Cap-Vert
		Grey-rumped Swift, Chaetura cinereiventris, Martinet à croupion gris
	www.oiseaux.net /liste/birds.apodidae.html (432 words)

	[No title]
		11/8/00 Upto 20 circling Black Kites were in evidence at daybreak soon joined by a twittering flock of House Swifts.
		Good birds seen in the Lodhi Gardens included Brown-headed Barbet, Oriental White-Eye and Black-rumped Flameback while the Deer Park in Hauz Khas had large parties of Jungle Babbler.
		We also saw a pair of Crested Serpent Eagles, Asian Barred Owlet, Green-tailed Sunbird, Grey-hooded Warbler, Brown-fronted Woodpecker, Grey Tit and Grey Bushchat.
	www.princeton.edu /~vivekt/trips/Delhi-Nainital00.html (1238 words)

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