Scientific name: Apus affinis
Little swifts are readily identified by their small size. Their wingspan is 33 cm compared to the 42 cm of common swift. They are black except for a white rump, the white extending on to the flanks. They have a short square tail. The flight is fluttering like a house martin.
The Little swift occurs almost everywhere in sub-Saharan Africa. It generally prefers built up areas (with large buildings) or cliffs, rocks and crags, foraging in the surrounding habitat.
It eats exclusively arthropods, such as termite alates, dragonflies, grasshoppers, Spiders and mantids, often hunting them at high altitudes.
