Giant Swiftlet
Hydrochous gigas(Hartert, EJO; Butler, AL, 1901)
English (US) Giant Swiftlet
The Giant Swiftlet (Hydrochous gigas) 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: southern Thai-Malay Peninsula, Sumatra, Java, and BorneoRange summary from AviList, in English.
- Scientific name
- Hydrochous gigas
- Family
- Apodidae (Swifts)
- Order
- Apodiformes
- IUCN Red List
- Near Threatened
- English (US)
- Giant Swiftlet
- Described by
- (Hartert, EJO; Butler, AL, 1901)
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Add Your ExpertiseTaxonomic history
- First described as
- Collocalia gigas
- Described by
- (Hartert, EJO; Butler, AL, 1901)
- Type locality
- Selangor, Malay States.
- Original description
- Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club 11 p.65
Nomenclatural data from the AviList checklist, quoted in the language of the original sources.
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