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 LC    Grey-rumped Treeswift* Id (Atlas):
    Hemiprocne longipennis

Description (10)
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Other Names (World)
Grey-rumped Treeswift, Gray-rumped Treeswift, Crested Treeswift(!)

Family
Hemiprocnidae (Treeswifts)

Size
18 - 21.50 cm

First Described (Guide)
(Rafinesque, 1802)

Habitat
Subtropical and tropical lowland and montane moist forest, mangroves. From sea-level - 1,550 m.

Range (Guide)
Brunei Darussalam, Indonesia, Malaysia, Myanmar, Singapore (B), Thailand.

Vagrant to Philippines.

Population
Estimated population is unknown (2010).

Status LC
For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.

Voice
Xeno-Canto Sound Files (more (40)...)

 
Grey-rumped Treeswift (Hemiprocne longipennis) [XC21017]
     by David Edwards from Karimata island, off West Kalimantan, Borneo, Indonesia (call)

 
Grey-rumped Treeswift (Hemiprocne longipennis) [XC290535]
     by Peter Boesman from River trail. Taman Negara, Pahang, Malaysia (flight call)

Subspecies
Forms a superspecies with Crested Treeswift (Hemiprocne coronata), with which formerly sometimes treated as conspecific. Several subspecies have been described, but most nowadays considered invalid, e.g. ocyptera (Nias I), thoa (Batu Is, Pagi Is, Enggano I) and anochra (Natuna Is).

The following 4 subspecies are recognised:

  • harterti Stresemann, 1913   -  Southern Myanmar (southern Tenasserim) and south-western Thailand southern and east to Sumatra, Borneo and intervening islands, and Sulu Archipelago east to Tawitawi (Philippines).
  • perlonga (Richmond, 1903)   -  Western Sumatran islands from Simeulue to Enggano.
  • longipennis (Rafinesque, 1802)   -  Sunda Strait (Panaitan I) through Java to Lombok, and Kangean Is (eastern Java Sea).
  • wallacii (Gould, 1859)   -  Sulawesi, including southern and eastern satellites, and Sula group (western Moluccas).



References
See References.


Files:
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