Cassin's Spinetail Neafrapus cassini Cassin's Spinetailed Swift

Cassin's Spinetail Neafrapus cassini
(aka Cassin's Spinetailed Swift)

Auntutu Forest, Ghana
May 2011

Cassin's Spinetail is distributed in Tropical Africa from Sierra Leone to western Uganda. It is found above the rainforest feeding high during the day and lower down at dawn and dusk.

It has long and distinctly notched wings and a very short tail. It has a greyish throat and upper breast and a white lower breast and belly with faint greyish streaks. Its flight is fluttering and bat-like.

It is often found in the same flock as the much smaller Sabine's Spinetail Rhaphidura sabini.

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