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 LC    Bare-legged Swiftlet* Id (Atlas):
    Aerodramus nuditarsus

Other Names (World)
Bare-legged Swiftlet, Schrader Mountain Swiftlet, New Guinea Swiftlet, Naked-legged Swiftlet

Family
Apodidae (Swifts)

Size
14 cm

First Described (Guide)
(Salomonsen, 1962)

Range (Guide)
Indonesia (B), Papua New Guinea (B).

Southern and south-eastern New Guinea. May breed north of central watershed in Schrader Range.
 
Population
Estimated population is unknown (2010).

Status LC
For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.

Subspecies
Genus often merged into Collocalia. Sometimes treated as forming a superspecies with Mayr's Swiftlet (Aerodramus orientalis), and thence also linked with Whitehead's Swiftlet (Aerodramus whiteheadi).

No subspecies.


References
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