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title: "Pallid Swift"
description: "Apus pallidus — Uccelli. The pallid swift (Apus pallidus) is a swift (order Apodiformes)."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/it/animal/pallid-swift
last_updated: 2026-09-20
---

# Pallid Swift

> Apus pallidus — Uccelli. The pallid swift (Apus pallidus) is a swift (order Apodiformes).

- Scientific name: *Apus pallidus*
- Category: `birds` (Uccelli)
- Habitats: unknown
- iNaturalist observations: 4827
- Wikidata: [Q165923](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q165923)
- iNaturalist taxon: [6643](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/6643)

## Names

- en: Pallid Swift
- de: Fahlsegler
- es: Vencejo pálido
- fr: Martinet pâle
- nl: Vale gierzwaluw
- pt: Andorinhão-pálido
- pl: Jerzyk blady

## Countries with the most observations

ES (1035), PT (810), DZ (519), IT (395), MA (176), FR (161), GR (99), TR (66), HR (64), AE (47), IL (45), EG (27)

## Summary

The pallid swift (Apus pallidus) is a swift (order Apodiformes). Swifts have very short legs which they use only for clinging to vertical surfaces. The genus name Apus is Latin for a swift, thought by the ancients to be a type of swallow with no feet (from Ancient Greek α, a, "without", and πούς, pous, "foot"), and pallidus is Latin for "pale". Like other swifts they never settle voluntarily on the ground, but spend most of their lives in the air, living on the insects they catch in their beaks. They drink on the wing.

Text: Wikipedia (en), CC BY-SA 4.0 — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pallid_swift

## Photo

![Pallid Swift](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/pallid-swift/medium.jpg)

Photo: bitsandbugs · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/274119879

## Machine access

`GET https://animalchecklist.com/api/v1/animals/pallid-swift?lang=it` — see [openapi.json](https://animalchecklist.com/openapi.json).