Silver-backed Needletail
Hirundapus cochinchinensis(Oustalet, J-FÉ, 1878)
English (US) Silver-backed Needletail
The Silver-backed Needletail (Hirundapus cochinchinensis) is a bird species documented in the AviList Global Avian Checklist. On BirdGuides.io, 0 professional guides specialise in helping birdwatchers observe this species. It belongs to the family Apodidae (Swifts) in the order Apodiformes.
Range: very local breeder, Uttarakhand (western Himalayas) through northeastern India, also southern and eastern China including Hainan, and Taiwan; winters southward through Malayan Peninsula and Java; generally scarce and little-knownRange summary from AviList, in English.
- Scientific name
- Hirundapus cochinchinensis
- Family
- Apodidae (Swifts)
- Order
- Apodiformes
- IUCN Red List
- Least Concern
- English (US)
- Silver-backed Needletail
- Described by
- (Oustalet, J-FÉ, 1878)
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Add Your ExpertiseTaxonomic history
- First described as
- Chaetura cochinchinensis
- Described by
- (Oustalet, J-FÉ, 1878)
- Type locality
- Saigon, Cochinchina.
- Original description
- Bulletin de la Société Philomathique de Paris (7), 2 p.52
Nomenclatural data from the AviList checklist, quoted in the language of the original sources.
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