Apus pacificus

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• Common Names
• Description
• Taxonomy
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• Notes

Interesting Facts

Common Names

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Description

Habitat

Ecology: List of Habitats :

•     1     Forest   
  
•     1.1     Forest - Boreal   
  
•     1.4     Forest - Temperate   
  
•     14     Artificial/Terrestrial   
  
•     14.5     Artificial/Terrestrial - Urban Areas   
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Taxonomy

Synonyms

Apus pacificus (Latham 1801) • Apus pacificus (Latham, 1802)

Notes

Name Status: Accepted Name .

Last scrutiny: 06-Dec-2005

Similar Species

Members of the genus Apus

ZipcodeZoo has pages for 29 species and subspecies in this genus:

A. acuticauda (Dark-Backed Swift) · A. aequatorialis (Mottled Swift) · A. affinis (Little Swift) · A. affinis affinis (Little Swift) · A. alexandri (Alexander's Swift) · A. apus (Eurasian Swift) · A. apus apus (Common Swift) · A. apus marwitzi (Common Swift) · A. balstoni (Malagasy Black Swift) · A. barbatus (African Black Swift) · A. barbatus barbatus (African Black Swift) · A. batesi (Bates' Black Swift) · A. berliozi (Forbes Watson's Swift) · A. bradfieldi (Bradfield's Swift) · A. bradfieldi bradfieldi (Bradfield's Swift) · A. caffer (African White-Rumped Swift) · A. horus (Loanda Swift) · A. melba (Alpine Swift) · A. melba melba (Alpine Swift) · A. niansae (Nyanza Swift) · A. nipalensis (House Swift) · A. nipalensis nipalensis (House Swift) · A. pacificus (White-Rumped Swift) · A. pacificus pacificus (Fork-Tailed Swift) · A. pallidus (Pale Brown Swift) · A. pallidus pallidus (Pallid Swift) · A. sladeniae (Fernando Po Swift) · A. toulsoni (Loanda Swift) · A. unicolor (Plain-Coloured Swift)

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Further Reading

• A key to the birds of the lower Yangtse Valley, with popular descriptions of the species commonly seen. By N. Gist Gee. .. and Lacy I. Moffett. Shanghai, Shanghai Mercury Limited, Print., 1917. url , p. 108.
• Bulletin - United States National Museum. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, [etc.];1877-1971. url p. 190, p. 230, p. 582, p. 601.
• Check-list of North American birds. [Ithaca, N.Y.]1957. url p. 299, p. 679.
• Check-list of North American birds: the species of birds of North America from the Arctic through Panama, including the West Indies and Hawaiian Islands / prepared by the Committee on Classification and Nomenclature of the American Orni Lawrence, Kan.: American Ornithologists' Union, 1983. url p. 323, p. 804.
• IUCN Directory of Protected Areas in Oceania IUCN url p. 269, p. 435.
• Ibis. [London]Published for the British Ornithologists' Union by Academic Press. url p. 428, p. 428.
• Journal of ethnobiology. 21 2001 Flagstaff, Ariz.: Center for Western Studies, 1981- url p. 142.
• Journal of the Federated Malay States Museums. Kuala Lumpur: the Museums, 1905-1936. url p. 271.
• Memoirs of the Museum of Comparative Zoölogy, at Harvard College, Cambridge, Mass. 40 1911 Cambridge [Mass.]: The Museum, 1876-1940. url p. 159.
• Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington. Washington, Biological Society of Washington url p. 420.
• Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales. Sydney, Linnean Society of New South Wales. url p. 240.
• Proceedings of the Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales. Mosman, New South Wales [etc.]The Society. url p. 12, p. 29.
• Results of the first Joint US-USSR Central Pacific Expedition (BERPAC): Autumn 1988 / John F. Turner, . .. [et al.]; P.A. Nagel, editor. Washington, DC: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, 1992. url p. 250, p. 251.
• Some Chinese vertebrates. .. With six plates. Cambridge, U.S.A., Printed for the Museum, 1912. url p. 159.
• The Marine Mammal Commission compendium of selected treaties, international agreements, and other relevant documents on marine resources, wildlife, and the environment / compiled by Richard L. Wallace. Washington, D.C.: The Commission; 1994 url p. 3483.
• The birds of Celebes and the neighbouring islands / A.B. Meyer and L.W. Wiglesworth. Berlin: R. Friedländer, 1898. url p. 921.
• The birds of Sibuyan Island, Romblon Province, Philippines: with particular reference to elevational distribution and biogeographic affinities / Steven M. Goodman, David E. Willard, Pedro C. Gonzales. 82 1995 [Chicago, Ill.]: Field Museum of Natural History, c1995. url p. 26.
• Transactions and proceedings of the New Zealand Institute. Wellington: New Zealand Institute. url p. 203.
• University of Kansas publications, Museum of Natural History. 3 1951 Lawrence, University of Kansas. url p. 226, p. 652.

Notes

Contributors

• BirdLife International 2004. Apus pacificus. In: IUCN 2006. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 21 October 2006.
• BirdLife International 2004. In IUCN 2008. 2008 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCNRedList.org. Downloaded July 18, 2008.
• BirdLife International 2009. Apus pacificus. In: IUCN 2011. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloadedon 30January2012.
• Bisby, F.A., Y.R. Roskov, M.A. Ruggiero, T.M. Orrell, L.E. Paglinawan, P.W. Brewer, N. Bailly, J. van Hertum, eds (2007). Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life: 2007 Annual Checklist. Species 2000: Reading, U.K.
• Brands, S.J. (comp.) 1989-present. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Zwaag, The Netherlands. Accessed January 9, 2012.
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Accessed March 09, 2008. http://www.gbif.org Mediated distribution data from 6 providers.
• IUCN 2012. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. . Downloaded on January 28, 2012.
• Ruggiero M., Gordon D., Bailly N., Kirk P., Nicolson D. (2011). The Catalogue of Life Taxonomic Classification, Edition 2, Part A. In: Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life: 2011 Annual Checklist (Bisby F.A., Roskov Y.R., Orrell T.M., Nicolson D., Paglinawan L.E., Bailly N., Kirk P.M., Bourgoin T., Baillargeon G., Ouvrard D., eds). DVD; Species 2000: Reading, UK.

Data Sources

Accessed through GBIF Data Portal March 09, 2008:

• Avian Knowledge Network: eBird
• Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum: Bishop Museum Natural History Specimen Data
• GBIF-Sweden: Birds (GBIF-SE:Artdatabanken)
• Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University: MCZ Ornithology Collection
• National Science Museum of Korea: National Science Museum of Korea Bird
• OZCAM (Online Zoological Collections of Australian Museums) Provider: Online Zoological Collections of Australian Museums

Identifiers

• Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 10394
• Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: ITS-178008
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 2481009
• Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) Taxonomic Serial Number (TSN): 178008
• IUCN ID: 192259
• Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 406643

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