Bradfield's swift

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| name = Bradfield's swift

| image = Apus bradfieldi -Pofadder, Northern Cape, South Africa -flying-8.jpg

| image_caption=Flying in Northern Cape, South Africa

| status = LC

| status_system = IUCN3.1

| status_ref = {{cite iucn |author=BirdLife International |date=2016 |title=Apus bradfieldi |volume=2016 |page=e.T22686835A93128238 |doi=10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T22686835A93128238.en |access-date=12 November 2021}}

| genus = Apus

| species = bradfieldi

| authority = (Roberts, 1926)

| synonyms =

}}

Bradfield's swift (Apus bradfieldi) is a species of swift in the family Apodidae.

It is found in Angola, Botswana, Namibia, and South Africa.

The common name and Latin binomial commemorate the South African naturalist R. D. Bradfield (1882–1949).{{cite book|last=Beolens|first=Bo|title=Whose Bird? Men and Women Commemorated in the Common Names of Birds|year=2003|publisher=Christopher Helm|location=London|page=63|author2=Watkins, Michael}}