Species of Swiftlets or Cave Swiftlets

 

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Genus Collocalia

Genus Aerodramus

Genus Hydrochous

Genus Schoutedenapus

The Papuan Swiftlet is apparently closer to the Waterfall Swift than to the other Aerodramus species and probably best placed in a separate genus (Price et al., 2005), whereas Thomassen et al. (2005) advocate reuniting all swiftlets in Collocalia. Schoutedenapus is one of the least-known genera of birds.

 
 
 
 
 
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