Swifts (Apodidae)
Mossy-nest Swiftlet (Aerodramus salangana) - HBW 5, p. 431
French: Salangane de la Sonde
German: Moosnestsalangane
Spanish: Salangana de la Sonda
Other common names: Mossy/Sunda Swiftlet
Taxonomy: Hemiprocne salangana Streubel, 1848, Java.
Genus often merged into Collocalia. Forms superspecies with A. vanikorensis, A. pelewensis, A. bartschi and A. inquietus; all were formerly considered conspecific. Race aerophilus of doubtful validity; often placed in A. fuciphagus. Races A. vanikorensis aenigma and A. v. heinrichi sometimes considered to belong to present species. Four subspecies recognized.
Subspecies and Distribution:
- natunae (Stresemann, 1930) - N Borneo, and probably Sumatra and Natuna Is.
- maratua (Riley, 1927) - Maratua Archipelago (off NE Borneo).
- aerophilus (Oberholser, 1912) - islands off W Sumatra, including Nias.
- salangana (Streubel, 1848) - Java.
- Least Concern Enlarge map
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Adult on nest
Locality Gomantong, Sabah (Malaysia), Borneo
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