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Alpine Swift

SP
Tachymarptis melba
흰배칼새
Included in KBR checklist
Alpine Swift
Lefteris Stavrakas · Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0

Alpine Swift (Tachymarptis melba), known in Korean as 흰배칼새 is retained in the KoreAves reference system, but none of the current record-source types contributes an eligible occurrence record under the contracted evidence rules. This does not establish biological absence from South Korea.

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Family Apodidae

Family per AviList v2025b (CC BY 4.0) · Avibase record ↗ · Evidence snapshot 2026-10-04