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Where does the Alpine Swift live?

Tachymarptis melba has 271,014 records in 130 countries and territories, from 1836 to 2026. Most records come from Spain.

Alpine Swift
Alpine Swift — Lefteris Stavrakas / CC BY-SA 2.0 · source
AnimaliaChordataAvesApodiformesApodidaeTachymarptis

When it is recorded

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Peak month: April. Records cluster in the months an animal is present and being looked for, so a summer peak can reflect observer effort as much as the animal.

Where it is recorded

PlaceRecordsShare
Spain 61,479
South Africa 45,718
France 37,041
Türkiye 18,680
India 16,577
Israel 15,058
Greece 13,209
Italy 7,857
Portugal 7,606
Bulgaria 7,114
Switzerland 4,841
Namibia 2,818
Palestine 2,518
Croatia 2,474
Cyprus 1,959
Germany 1,600
Iran 1,417
Morocco 1,416
Georgia 1,371
Uganda 1,345
Netherlands 1,139
United Kingdom 1,131
Austria 1,126
Sri Lanka 1,027
Kenya 943
Tanzania 897
Lesotho 675
Russia 667
Madagascar 590
Montenegro 584
Serbia 581
Slovenia 575
Romania 538
Nepal 477
Ethiopia 452
Kyrgyzstan 440
Algeria 411
Saudi Arabia 402
Ukraine 391
Uzbekistan 357

Showing the top 40 of 130 places.

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Status from the records: resident
Recorded across many years and months — an established presence. This is inferred from how many years and months the animal appears in, not from a range map — treat it as evidence, not a formal assessment.