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, 1849)
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Collocalia spodiopygia (Peale, 1848) | |
The white-rumped swiftlet (Aerodramus spodiopygius) is a species of
Apodidae
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It is found in American Samoa, Fiji, New Caledonia, Papua New Guinea, Samoa, the Solomon Islands, Tonga, and Vanuatu. Birds in Australia are now treated as a separate species, the Australian swiftlet (Aerodramus terraereginae).
Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests, subtropical or tropical moist montane forests, and rocky areas.
References
- . Retrieved 11 November 2021.
External links
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