The Horus Swift has a patchy sub-Saharan African range and catches insects in flight. Its nesting sites include eastern and southern Africa and northern Senegal.
Its tail is slightly forked, and white rump patches extend along the flanks.
It catches insects in flight. It nests in holes in vertical banks, including old burrows made by bee-eaters, kingfishers, or martins.
In southern Africa it builds a small nest pad of grass, leaves and feathers bound with saliva in the chamber at the end of an old burrow.
In southern Africa it lays two to four eggs, with incubation lasting about 28 days.
It catches flies, beetles, true bugs and flying termites in the air.
At Lérabé in northern Senegal in 2018–2020, birds entered and left disused bee-eater burrows and carried food.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.