Uniform Swiftlet

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When to see the Uniform Swiftlet

One bar for each month. Filled bars are the 7 months with records; pale bars are months with none. The wide bar is July, the month with the most records.

Where to see the Uniform Swiftlet

The map shades 4 countries with regular records, and 1 more in a lighter tone where the bird turns up only as a stray. Everything unshaded has no records. Countries are listed below the map.

Recorded as a rare visitor in Australia.

About the Uniform Swiftlet

The uniform swiftlet, also known as the Vanikoro swiftlet or lowland swiftlet, is a gregarious, medium-sized swiftlet with a shallowly forked tail. The colouring is dark grey-brown, darker on the upperparts with somewhat paler underparts, especially on chin and throat. This species is widespread from the Philippines through Wallacea, New Guinea and Melanesia. It forages for flying insects primarily in lowland forests and open areas. It nests in caves where it uses its sense of echolocation, rare in birds, to navigate.

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Easily confused with

White-rumped SwiftletAerodramus spodiopygiusThe white-rumped swiftlet is a species of swift in the family Apodidae. Ameline SwiftletAerodramus amelisThe Ameline swiftlet, also known as the grey swiftlet is a small bird in the swift family Apodidae. Mascarene SwiftletAerodramus francicusThe Mascarene swiftlet or Mauritius swiftlet is a species of swift in the family Apodidae.

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