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Aerodramus fuciphagus · Family Apodidae

Aerodramus fuciphagus

Family Apodidae

Order
Apodiformes
Family
Apodidae
GBIF occurrence records
108,722
Countries and territories with records
22
Edible-nest Swiftlet
Lip Kee Yap from Singapore, Republic of Singapore · AerodramusFuciphagus.LipKee.jpg · CC BY-SA 2.0 · Lip Kee Yap from Singapore, Republic of Singapore · CC BY-SA 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons · Recordings may be trimmed and re-encoded; photos are cropped and resized.

About this species

This species has 108,722 occurrence records from 22 countries and territories (GBIF, 21 October 2026). Most records come from Thailand (49.5%), Cambodia (14.7%), Malaysia (14.4%), Indonesia (7.8%) and Vietnam (6.6%); together they account for 93% of the total. In Thailand, this species accounts for 0.82% of all bird records in GBIF.

The scientific name Aerodramus fuciphagus combines the genus name Aerodramus with the species epithet fuciphagus. The Warbla app catalog lists 19 species of the genus Aerodramus; apart from this one, those with the most GBIF records are Aerodramus terraereginae, Aerodramus unicolor and Aerodramus brevirostris.

The catalog has GBIF record counts for 96 species of the family Apodidae. This species ranks 13th among them; the family’s most-recorded species is Chaetura pelagica. Its record count is close to the family average (123,580). The family Apodidae belongs to the order Apodiformes, which has 452 species in the Warbla app catalog.

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