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Aerodramus fuciphagus (Edible-nest Swiftlet)

Synonyms: Hirundo fuciphaga

Wikipedia Abstract

The edible-nest swiftlet (Aerodramus fuciphagus) is a small bird of the swift family which is found in South-east Asia. Its nest is made of solidified saliva and is used to make bird's nest soup.
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Infraspecies

Aerodramus fuciphagus dammermani
Aerodramus fuciphagus fuciphagus
Aerodramus fuciphagus inexpectatus
Aerodramus fuciphagus micans
Aerodramus fuciphagus perplexus
Aerodramus fuciphagus vestitus

Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  15.5 grams
Clutch Size [1]  2
Fledging [2]  43 days
Incubation [1]  26 days
Snout to Vent Length [2]  4.724 inches (12 cm)

Ecoregions

Protected Areas

Predators

Ninox obscura (Hume's Boobook)[1]

External References

Citations

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.
♦ 2Nathan 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