Treeswifts
Hemiprocne
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.
4 branches of this genus, most-observed first · about 4 known species
Crested Treeswift
speciesHemiprocne coronata
Grey-rumped Treeswift
speciesHemiprocne longipennis
Whiskered Treeswift
speciesHemiprocne comata
Moustached Treeswift
speciesHemiprocne mystacea
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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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 6527.