White-rumped swiftlet
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Clade: | Strisores |
| Order: | Apodiformes |
| Family: | Apodidae |
| Genus: | Aerodramus |
| Species: | A. spodiopygius
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| Binomial name | |
| Aerodramus spodiopygius (Peale, 1848)
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Collocalia spodiopygia (Peale, 1848) | |
The white-rumped swiftlet (Aerodramus spodiopygius) is a species of swift in the family Apodidae.
It is found in American Samoa, Fiji, New Caledonia, Papua New Guinea, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Tonga, and Vanuatu. Birds in Australia are now treated as a separate species, Australian swiftlet (Aerodramus terraereginae).
Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests, subtropical or tropical moist montane forests, and rocky areas.
References
- ^ BirdLife International (2014). "Aerodramus spodiopygius". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2014. Retrieved 29 August 2014.
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