Swifts (Apodidae)
Mountain Swiftlet (Aerodramus hirundinaceus) - HBW 5, p. 428
French: Salangane de montagne
German: Bergsalangane
Spanish: Salangana Montana
Taxonomy: Collocalia fuciphaga hirundinacea Stresemann, 1914, Upper Utakwa River, New Guinea.
Genus often merged into Collocalia. Forms superspecies with A. mearnsi, A. infuscatus, A.spodiopygius and A. terraereginae. Previously placed in composite species A. francicus or alternatively in A. vanikorensis; considered conspecific with A. spodiopygius by some authors. Three subspecies recognized.
Subspecies and Distribution:
- baru (Stresemann & Paludan, 1932) - Yapen I (in Geelvink Bay, NW New Guinea).
- excelsus (Ogilvie-Grant, 1914) - over 1600 m in Snow Mts and Carstenz peaks, Irian Jaya.
- hirundinaceus (Stresemann, 1914) - much of New Guinea.
- Least Concern Enlarge map
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Birds flying at dusk. Locality West Papua (Indonesia), New Guinea (ssp excelsus)
Josep del Hoyo 16 July 2008 2 years ago 35 sec 2.5 -
Several birds flying over the mountains at dusk. Locality West Papua (Indonesia), New Guinea (ssp excelsus)
Josep del Hoyo 16 July 2008 3 years ago 26 sec 2.2
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