ABSTRACT
Kenya is one of the very few areas of Africa where both this species and the related Alpine Swift breed. Alpine Swift like the Mottled Swift, this species apparently breeds on rocky crags in the highlands, but there are no completely certain records. The range of palm swift is principally governed by the distribution of tall palms, in which it roosts and nests. The Mottled Swift is thought to breed in the crater of Longonot volcano 62C, on the cliffs of the Elgeyo scarp, but all of these records apparently refer to birds visiting possible nest crevices, and there are no confirmed records of even used eggshells. The Eurasian Swift is closely related to the Black Swift, which forms part of a superspecies with Forbes-Watson's Swift; this superspecies, forms part of a species-group with the Nyanza Swift. Kenyan bird of forest strips and woodland, primarily in the coastal lowlands, where at least locally more common than the Mottle-throated Spinetail.
