Interesting Facts
Common Names
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Common Names in English:
White-Breasted Wood Swallow, White-Breasted Wood-Swallow, White-Breasted Woodswallow
Common Names in French:
Langrayen à Ventre Blanc
Common Names in German:
Weißbauch-Schwalbenstar
Common Names in Japanese:
モリツバメ
Common Names in Latin:
Artamus leucorhynchos leucorhynchus
Common Names in Polish:
Ostrolot Zalobny
Description
Habitat
Typically found in the intertidal zone at the water's edge at a mean distance from sea level of 208 meters (682 feet).[1]
Biome: Coastal.
Taxonomy
- Kingdom:
Animalia
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- animals
Synonyms
Artamus leucorhynchus (Linnaeus • Artamus leucorynchus (Linnaeus
Similar Species
Members of the genus Artamus
ZipcodeZoo has pages for 16 species and subspecies in this genus:
A. cinereus (Black-Faced Wood-Swallow) · A. cinereus cinereus (Black-Faced Wood Swallow) · A. cyanopterus (Dusky Wood Swallow) · A. cyanopterus cyanopterus (Dusky Wood Swallow) · A. fuscus (Ashy Swallow-Shrike) · A. insignis (White-Backed Woodswallow) · A. leucorhynchus (White-Breasted Wood-Swallow) · A. leucorhynchus leucorhynchus (White-Breasted Wood Swallow) · A. leucorynchus (White-Breasted Wood-Swallow) · A. leucorynchus leucorynchus (White-Breasted Wood-Swallow) · A. maximus (Black-Breasted Woodswallow) · A. mentalis (Fiji White-Breasted Woodswallow) · A. minor (Little Wood-Swallow) · A. monachus (Ivory-Backed Wood-Swallow) · A. personatus (Masked Wood-Swallow) · A. superciliosus (White-Browed Wood-Swallow)
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Notes
Contributors
- Brands, S.J. (comp.) 1989-present. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Zwaag, The Netherlands. Accessed January 15, 2012.
Identifiers
- Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 3854920
- Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 2287200
Footnotes
- Standard Deviation = 381.720 based on 33 observations. Terrestrial altitude and ocean depth information for each observation from British Oceanographic Data Centre. [back]
