The Common swallow (Apus apus) has two subspecies: common Swift, European Swift, Swift, and Martinet noir. The common louver was one of the many species described by the Swedish naturalist Carl Linnaeus in 1758 in the tenth edition of his Systema Naturae. He introduced the binomial name "Hirund...
The small Swift (Apus affinis) has six subspecies: Little Swift, House Swift, Martinet des maisons.Small swift populations in the far western Palaearctic region and southern Africa are partially or entirely migratory, but populations in the tropics are resident birds. The young swifts that live in T...
The Greater Swiftlet (Aerodramus maximus) is a species of animal in the genus Swiftlet.Large swiftlets can fly around dark caves like bats by echolocation. Its "sonar" is audible to the human ear and consists of "clicks" at a frequency of 1,500 to 5,500 Hertz, about six times per...
Common Diving Petrel (Pelecanoides urinatrix) is a small diving petrel.During the breeding period of Pelican swallows, they often foraged on the continental shelf. Behavior during the non-breeding period is not known. Like other birds in the Pelican family, they flap their wings as thrust for diving...
Hydrobates monorhis is a small sea bird. Austin (1952) combined this species with O. cucorhoa. Bretagnolle et al. (1991) and Daw-son (1992) divided them into two separate species because of their morphological and acoustical differences. Zheng Zuoxin (1994), Inskipp, Lindsey and Duckworth (1996), an...