The Asian Palm Swift is a slender, small swift that attaches its nest with saliva beneath palm leaves.
It has a pale brown body and long, strongly swept-back wings. The sexes look similar; juveniles have shorter tails.
It catches insects in the air and fastens its nest with saliva to the underside of a palm leaf.
In Singapore it attaches a flimsy half-cup nest of plant floss and feathers beneath an old palm frond hanging almost vertically.
In Singapore in May 2010, an adult fed two chicks late in the evening, one inside the nest and the other perched on its apron.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.