African Palm Swift

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Contemporary
United States

African Palm Swift
Cypsiurus parvus

Collected from Morondera, Mashonaland East Province, Zimbabwe, 1973
The Western Foundation of Vertebrate Zoology

African Palm Swifts live in sub-Saharan Africa, Southern Arabia, and Madagascar. Using their sticky saliva, they bond a shallow platform of soft feathers and plant down to the underside of a downward hanging palm leaf. If palms are unavailable, they adopt other trees, or even manmade structures. When the female produces an egg, she carefully lowers it into the nest platform and glues it in place with saliva. Both members of a pair incubate the eggs, pressing them tightly against the nest, trading shifts carefully.

The nests were photographed in four science collections: The California Academy of Sciences, The Western Foundation of Vertebrate Zoology, The Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, the Cornell Museum of Vertebrates, and the American Museum of Natural History.

Subject Details:
Western Foundation of Vertebrate Zoology
Cypsiurus parvus
Nest #138025-2
Nest and eggs
Africa, Zimbabwe, Prov. ov Mashonaland East, Morondera
11 Nov 1973

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