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Aerodramus sawtelli (Atiu Swiftlet)

Synonyms: Aerodramus leucophaeus sawtelli; Aerodramus sawtelli sawtelli; Collocalia sawtelli

Wikipedia Abstract

The Atiu swiftlet (Aerodramus sawtelli) is a species of bird in the swift family, endemic to Atiu in the Cook Islands. This small, dark swift measures 10 cm (3.9 in) long. It is sooty-brown above, slightly lighter below. Its natural habitats are the island's fernlands and mixed horticultural areas over which it feeds, and in makatea limestone caves within which it nests. The species is known on Atiu as kopeka.
View Wikipedia Record: Aerodramus sawtelli

Endangered Species

Status: Vulnerable
View IUCN Record: Aerodramus sawtelli

Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  9 grams
Birth Weight [2]  1.1 grams
Clutch Size [2]  2
Snout to Vent Length [3]  3.937 inches (10 cm)

Ecoregions

Name Countries Ecozone Biome Species Report Climate Land
Use
Cook Islands tropical moist forests New Zealand Oceania Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests    

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Tarburton, M. K. 1992. Weights of some birds from Fiji. Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club 112:34-36
♦ 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.
♦ 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
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