Typical Needletails
Hirundapus
Hirundapus is a genus of swifts in the family Apodidae. The name Hirundapus is constructed from the names of the swallow genus Hirundo and the swift genus Apus.
It contains the following species:
4 branches of this genus, most-observed first · about 4 known species
White-throated Needletail
speciesHirundapus caudacutus
Brown-backed Needletail
speciesHirundapus giganteus
Silver-backed Needletail
speciesHirundapus cochinchinensis
Purple Needletail
speciesHirundapus celebensis
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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In the stacks
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 6849.