Whitehead's Swiftlet (Aerodramus whiteheadi) | Photos and ID

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When to see the Whitehead's Swiftlet

One bar for each month. Filled bars are the 6 months with records; pale bars are months with none. The wide bar is July, the month with the most records.

Where to see the Whitehead's Swiftlet

Regular rangeRare visitor

The map shades 1 country with regular records, and 3 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.

Philippines

Recorded as a rare visitor in ZZ, Indonesia, Papua New Guinea.

About the Whitehead's Swiftlet

Whitehead's swiftlet is a species of swift in the family Apodidae. It is endemic to the Philippines. It is named after the British explorer John Whitehead (1860–1899). Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist montane forests. Its status is insufficiently known.

Text adapted from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

Easily confused with

Three-toed SwiftletAerodramus papuensisThe three-toed swiftlet or Papuan swiftlet is a species of swift. Bare-legged SwiftletAerodramus nuditarsusThe bare-legged swiftlet is a species of swift in the family Apodidae. Mayr's SwiftletAerodramus orientalisMayr's swiftlet is a species of swift in the family Apodidae.

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