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Aerodramus whiteheadi (Whitehead's Swiftlet)

Synonyms: Collocalia whiteheadi

Wikipedia Abstract

The Whitehead's swiftlet (Aerodramus whiteheadi) is a species of swift in the Apodidae family. It is endemic to the Philippines. It is named after the British explorer John Whitehead (1860-1899) who collected natural history specimens in Borneo and elsewhere in Southeast Asia. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist montane forests. Its status is insufficiently known.
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Infraspecies

Aerodramus whiteheadi origenis
Aerodramus whiteheadi whiteheadi

Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  14 grams
Female Weight [1]  14 grams

Ecoregions

Name Countries Ecozone Biome Species Report Climate Land
Use
Luzon tropical pine forests Philippines Indo-Malayan Tropical and Subtropical Coniferous Forests
Mindanao montane rain forests Philippines Indo-Malayan Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Nathan 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
Ecoregions provided by World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). WildFinder: Online database of species distributions, ver. 01.06 Wildfinder Database
Abstract provided by DBpedia licensed under a Creative Commons License
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