The Nature LibraryEN·ES
iNat·6526FamilyAves2,919 field observations
  1. Animals
  2. ›Chordates
  3. ›Vertebrates
  4. ›Birds
  5. ›Swifts and Hummingbirds
Treeswifts
Plate 1 of 3. (c) Ruchira Nethmina, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC), uploaded by Ruchira Nethmina · via iNaturalist

Treeswifts

Hemiprocnidae

Treeswifts or crested swifts are a family, Hemiprocnidae, of aerial near passerine birds, closely related to the true swifts. The family contains a single genus, Hemiprocne, with four species. They are distributed from India and South East Asia through Indonesia to New Guinea and the Solomon Islands.

Continue reading on Wikipedia

1 branches of this family, most-observed first · about 4 known species

See this branch on the Wheel of Life →
§·

Where it lives

Recorded sightings

—

geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.

Drag the globe to turn it. Dots are where records exist, not a range map; darker means more records.

§·

In the stacks

Searching the stacks…

Every page naming Hemiprocnidae in the Biodiversity Heritage Library →

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 6526.