| House swift | |
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| In flight at Shivapuri Nagarjun National Park, Nepal | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Clade: | Strisores |
| Order: | Apodiformes |
| Family: | Apodidae |
| Genus: | Apus |
| Species: | A. nipalensis
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| Binomial name | |
| Apus nipalensis (Hodgson, 1837)
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The house swift (Apus nipalensis) is a species of swift in the family Apodidae. It is found in Japan, Nepal, and Southeast Asia. It is capable of flying long distances by alternately shutting off hemispheres of its brain in-flight.
It was formerly considered a subspecies of the little swift, under the name Apus affinis subfurcatus.[2]
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- ^ Lin, Jie-Ru; Zhou, Hua; Lai, Xiao-Ping; Hou, Yan; Xian, Xiao-Min; Chen, Jian-Nan; Wang, Pei-Xun; Zhou, Lian; Dong, Yan (2009-10-01). "Genetic identification of edible birds' nest based on mitochondrial DNA sequences". Food Research International. 42 (8): 1053–1061. doi:10.1016/j.foodres.2009.04.014. ISSN 0963-9969.