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Species of bird From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Böhm's spinetail, also Bohm's spinetail or Boehm's spinetail, (Neafrapus boehmi), also known as the bat-like spinetail, is a species of swift in the family Apodidae.
| Böhm's spinetail | |
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| Böhm's spinetails in southern Mozambique | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Clade: | Strisores |
| Order: | Apodiformes |
| Family: | Apodidae |
| Genus: | Neafrapus |
| Species: | N. boehmi |
| Binomial name | |
| Neafrapus boehmi (Schalow, 1882) | |
It is found in Angola, Botswana, DRC, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Somalia, South Africa, Tanzania, Zambia, and Zimbabwe. It occurs in the vicinity of Baobab trees and nests in cavities in the trees.
The name of this bird commemorates the German zoologist Richard Böhm.
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