Animalia > Chordata > Aves > Passeriformes > Hirundinidae > Delichon > Delichon nipalenseDelichon nipalense (Nepal Martin; Nepal House Martin)Synonyms: Delichon nipalensis The Nepal house martin (Delichon nipalense) is a non-migratory passerine of the swallow family Hirundinidae. Its two subspecies breed in the Himalayas from northwestern India through Nepal to Burma, northern Vietnam, and just into China. It occurs in river valleys and rugged wooded mountain ridges at heights between 1,000–4,000 m (3,300–13,100 ft) altitude, where it nests in colonies beneath overhangs on vertical cliffs, laying three or four white eggs in an enclosed mud nest. |
Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) Unique (100) Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) Unique & Vulnerable (100) ED Score: 8.00945 EDGE Score: 2.19827 |
Adult Weight [1] | 15 grams | | Diet [2] | Carnivore (Invertebrates) | Diet - Invertibrates [2] | 100 % | Forages - Aerial [2] | 80 % | Forages - Canopy [2] | 20 % | | Clutch Size [3] | 4 |
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Countries |
Ecozone |
Biome |
Species |
Report |
Climate |
Land Use |
Chin Hills-Arakan Yoma montane forests |
Myanmar, India |
Indo-Malayan |
Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests |
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Eastern Himalayan alpine shrub and meadows |
Bhutan, China, India, Myanmar, Nepal |
Palearctic |
Montane Grasslands and Shrublands |
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Eastern Himalayan broadleaf forests |
India, Nepal |
Indo-Malayan |
Temperate Broadleaf and Mixed Forests |
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Eastern Himalayan subalpine conifer forests |
Bhutan, India, Nepal |
Indo-Malayan |
Temperate Coniferous Forests |
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Himalayan subtropical pine forests |
India, Bhutan, Nepal |
Indo-Malayan |
Tropical and Subtropical Coniferous Forests |
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Luang Prabang montane rain forests |
Laos, Thailand, Viet Nam |
Indo-Malayan |
Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests |
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Meghalaya subtropical forests |
India |
Indo-Malayan |
Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests |
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Mizoram-Manipur-Kachin rain forests |
Myanmar, India, Bangladesh |
Indo-Malayan |
Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests |
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Myanmar coastal rain forests |
Myanmar, Bangladesh |
Indo-Malayan |
Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests |
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Northern Annamites rain forests |
Laos, Viet Nam |
Indo-Malayan |
Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests |
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Northern Indochina subtropical forests |
China, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand, Viet Nam |
Indo-Malayan |
Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests |
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Northern Triangle subtropical forests |
Myanmar |
Indo-Malayan |
Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests |
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Northern Triangle temperate forests |
Myanmar |
Indo-Malayan |
Temperate Broadleaf and Mixed Forests |
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Southeastern Indochina dry evergreen forests |
Viet Nam, Cambodia, Laos, Thailand |
Indo-Malayan |
Tropical and Subtropical Dry Broadleaf Forests |
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Southern Annamites montane rain forests |
Laos, Vietnam, Cambodia |
Indo-Malayan |
Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests |
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Terai-Duar savanna and grasslands |
Bhutan, India, Nepal |
Indo-Malayan |
Tropical and Subtropical Grasslands, Savannas, and Shrublands |
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Western Himalayan alpine shrub and meadows |
India, Nepal |
Palearctic |
Montane Grasslands and Shrublands |
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Western Himalayan subalpine conifer forests |
India, Pakistan, Nepal |
Indo-Malayan |
Temperate Coniferous Forests |
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Yarlung Tsangpo arid steppe |
China |
Palearctic |
Montane Grasslands and Shrublands |
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Yunnan Plateau subtropical evergreen forests |
China |
Palearctic |
Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests |
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Name |
Location |
Endemic |
Species |
Website |
Himalaya |
Bhutan, China, India, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan |
No |
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Indo-Burma |
Bangladesh, Cambodia, China, India, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand, Viet Nam |
No |
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Attributes / relations provided by ♦ 1del Hoyo, J., Elliott, A., Sargatal, J., Christie, D.A. & de Juana, E. (eds.). Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive. Lynx Edicions, Barcelona. ♦ 2Hamish Wilman, Jonathan Belmaker, Jennifer Simpson, Carolina de la Rosa, Marcelo M. Rivadeneira, and Walter Jetz. 2014. EltonTraits 1.0: Species-level foraging attributes of the world's birds and mammals. Ecology 95:2027 ♦ 3Jetz W, Sekercioglu CH, Böhning-Gaese K (2008) The Worldwide Variation in Avian Clutch Size across Species and Space PLoS Biol 6(12): e303. doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.0060303 Ecoregions provided by World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). WildFinder: Online database of species distributions, ver. 01.06 Wildfinder Database |
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0
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