common swift

English

common swift flock in flight

Noun

common swift (plural common swifts)

1. Apus apus, a swallow-like bird native to Europe and much of temperate Asia, rarely alighting on the ground.

Translations

Apus apus

• Albanian: dejkë (sq) f
• Asturian: andarón (ast), cirriu (ast)
• Bashkir: ҡара ҡарлуғасы (qara qarluğası)
• Belarusian: чорны свіргуль m (čórny svirhulʹ)
• Bulgarian: бързолет m (bǎrzolet)
• Catalan: falciot negre
• Czech: rorýs obecný (cs) m
• Dutch: gierzwaluw (nl) f
• Esperanto: apuso
• Estonian: piiritaja
• Finnish: tervapääsky (fi)
• French: martinet noir (fr) m
• German: Mauersegler (de) m
• Greek: μαυροσταχτάρα f (mavrostachtára)
• Hungarian: sarlósfecske (hu)
• Icelandic: múrsvölungur (is) m
• Ingrian: tervapääskö
• Japanese: ヨーロッパ雨燕 (yōroppa-amatsubame)
• Kazakh: ნამგალა
• Kumyk: къайчыкъанат (qayçıqanat)
• Mongolian: ᠬᠣᠷ᠎ᠠ
  ᠣᠷᠠᠴᠠᠢ (qor-a oračai)
• Navajo: Tó wónaanídę́ę́ʼ tsxį́į́łnaalkʼįhii
• Russian: чёрный стриж m (čórnyj striž)
• Slovak: dážďovník obyčajný (sk) m
• Spanish: vencejo común m
• Swedish: tornseglare (sv) c
• Turkish: kara sağan

Further reading

• common swift on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Apus apus on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Apus apus on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
• Apus_apus at Animal Diversity Web