Animalia > Chordata > Aves > Apodiformes > Apodidae > Aerodramus amelis > Aerodramus amelis palawanensis

Aerodramus amelis palawanensis (Palawan Swiftlet)

Synonyms: Aerodramus palawanensis; Aerodramus vanikorensis palawanensis; Collocalia lowi palawanensis

Wikipedia Abstract

The Palawan swiftlet (Aerodramus palawanensis) is a species of swift in the Apodidae family. Some taxonomists consider it to be a subspecies of the uniform swiftlet. It is endemic to the Philippines. It uses echolocation to navigate and hunt in the darkness. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests.
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Ecoregions

Name Countries Ecozone Biome Species Report Climate Land
Use
Palawan rain forests Philippines Indo-Malayan Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests

External References

Citations

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