Animalia > Chordata > Aves > Apodiformes > Apodidae > Collocalia > Collocalia esculenta

Collocalia esculenta (Glossy Swiftlet)

Synonyms: Hirundo esculenta

Infraspecies

EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) 
6
 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) 
29
 Unique & Vulnerable (100)
ED Score: 12.8651
EDGE Score: 2.62938

Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  7.1 grams
Diet [2]  Carnivore (Invertebrates)
Diet - Invertibrates [2]  100 %
Forages - Aerial [2]  90 %
Forages - Mid-High [2]  10 %
Clutch Size [5]  1
Fledging [3]  42 days
Incubation [4]  22 days
Snout to Vent Length [3]  3.937 inches (10 cm)

Ecoregions

Protected Areas

Biodiversity Hotspots

Predators

Ninox obscura (Hume's Boobook)[4]

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
1Foraging of Glossy and Pygmy Swiftlets in Palawan, Philippine Islands, CHARLES T. COLLINS, FORKTAIL 16 (2000): 53-55
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
3Nathan P. Myhrvold, Elita Baldridge, Benjamin Chan, Dhileep Sivam, Daniel L. Freeman, and S. K. Morgan Ernest. 2015. An amniote life-history database to perform comparative analyses with birds, mammals, and reptiles. Ecology 96:3109
4del Hoyo, J., Elliott, A., Sargatal, J., Christie, D.A. & de Juana, E. (eds.). Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive. Lynx Edicions, Barcelona.
5Jetz 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
Biodiversity Hotspots provided by Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund
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