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CAVS: 0882

Species Collocalia esculenta (Linnaeus, 1758)

Glossy Swiftlet

Distribution

Extra Distribution Information

Indian Ocean; also vagrant in northern Australia (subspecies nitens)


IBRA and IMCRA regions (map not available)

IMCRA

Christmas Island Province (23)

Other Regions

Christmas Island terrestrial & freshwater

Ecological Descriptors

Aerial, arthropod-feeder, closed forest, diurnal, gregarious, low open shrubland, low shrubland, open forest, sedentary, tussock grassland, volant, woodland.

Extra Ecological Information

Circumannual reproduction, feeds aerially in open areas usually at tree-top level or below in circling convolutions and gliding on down-swept wings, roosts and nests among ledges in shallow caves, without echo-locating rattle call, builds a bracket-shaped vegetable nest primarily of bryophytes and rootlets agglutinated with saliva.

 

History of changes

Note that this list may be incomplete for dates prior to September 2013.
Published As part of group Action Date Action Type Compiler(s)
10-Nov-2020 AVES 28-Sep-2022 MODIFIED
12-Feb-2010 (import)