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Böhm's spinetail

species of bird

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 30, 2025
Entity authorityQ1258885 ↗
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Böhm's spinetail, also Bohm's spinetail or Boehm's spinetail, (Neafrapus boehmi), also known as the bat-like spinetail, is a species of swift in the family Apodidae.

It is found in Angola, Botswana, DRC, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Somalia, South Africa, Tanzania, Zambia, and Zimbabwe. It occurs in the vicinity of Baobab trees and nests in cavities in the trees.

The name of this bird commemorates the German zoologist Richard Böhm.

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External links

Böhm's spinetail - Species text in The Atlas of Southern African Birds.

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This entry incorporates text from “Böhm's spinetail” 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.