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Aerodramus salangana (Mossy-nest Swiftlet)

Synonyms: Aerodramus salanganus; Collocalia salangana; Hemiprocne salangana

Wikipedia Abstract

The mossy-nest swiftlet (Aerodramus salangana) is a species of swift in the Apodidae family. Some taxonomists consider it to be a subspecies of the uniform swiftlet. It is found in northern Borneo, the Natuna and the Derawan Islands, islands off western Sumatra and Java. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests.
View Wikipedia Record: Aerodramus salangana

Infraspecies

Aerodramus salangana aerophilus
Aerodramus salangana maratua
Aerodramus salangana natunae
Aerodramus salangana salangana

Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  10 grams
Clutch Size [3]  1
Fledging [1]  43 days
Incubation [2]  23 days
Snout to Vent Length [1]  4.724 inches (12 cm)

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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
♦ 2del Hoyo, J., Elliott, A., Sargatal, J., Christie, D.A. & de Juana, E. (eds.). Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive. Lynx Edicions, Barcelona.
♦ 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
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