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Malagasy black swift

species of bird

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionFeb 6, 2026
Entity authorityQ1261001 ↗
Source-derived summary

The Malagasy black swift (Apus balstoni) or Madagascar swift, is a species of swift in the family Apodidae.

It is endemic to Madagascar and the Comoro Islands.

Habitat

Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and subtropical or tropical moist montane forests.

Subspecies

A. b. balstoni – Madagascar

A. b.

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Editorial reviewA sound reference starting point where classification, measurement and the date of the underlying evidence remain visible. The current 53-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Malagasy, black and swift is the immediate research focus.
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This entry incorporates text from “Malagasy black swift” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.