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Glossy swiftlet, the Glossary

The glossy swiftlet (Collocalia esculenta) is a species of swift in the family Apodidae.^[1]

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Birds of Melanesia
Collocalia

Admiralty Islands

The Admiralty Islands are an archipelago group of 40 islands in the Bismarck Archipelago, to the north of New Guinea in the South Pacific Ocean.

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Ambon Island

Ambon Island is part of the Maluku Islands of Indonesia.

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Aru Islands Regency

The Aru Islands Regency (Kabupaten Kepulauan Aru) is a group of about 95 low-lying islands in the Maluku Islands of eastern Indonesia.

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Banggai Islands Regency

The Banggai Archipelago (Kepulauan Banggai) is a group of islands located at the far eastern end of Central Sulawesi, Indonesia.

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In taxonomy, binomial nomenclature ("two-term naming system"), also called binary nomenclature, is a formal system of naming species of living things by giving each a name composed of two parts, both of which use Latin grammatical forms, although they can be based on words from other languages.

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Bismarck Archipelago

The Bismarck Archipelago is a group of islands off the northeastern coast of New Guinea in the western Pacific Ocean and is part of the Islands Region of Papua New Guinea.

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Bougainville Island

Bougainville Island (Tok Pisin: Bogenvil) is the main island of the Autonomous Region of Bougainville, which is part of Papua New Guinea.

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Buka Island

Buka Island is the second-largest island in the Autonomous Region of Bougainville, in eastern Papua New Guinea.

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Carl Linnaeus

Carl Linnaeus (23 May 1707 – 10 January 1778), also known after ennoblement in 1761 as Carl von Linné,Blunt (2004), p. 171.

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Cenderawasih Bay

Cenderawasih Bay (Teluk Cenderawasih, "Bird of Paradise Bay"), also known as Sarera Bay (Teluk Sarera) and formerly Geelvink Bay (Geelvinkbaai), is a large bay in northern Province of Papua, Central Papua and West Papua, New Guinea, Indonesia.

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Christmas Island swiftlet

The Christmas Island swiftlet (Collocalia natalis), also known as the Christmas glossy swiftlet or the Christmas cave swiftlet, is a small bird in the swift family Apodidae. Glossy swiftlet and Christmas Island swiftlet are Collocalia.

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Collocalia

Collocalia is a genus of swifts, containing some of the smaller species termed "swiftlets".

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D'Entrecasteaux Islands

D'Entrecasteaux Islands are situated near the eastern tip of New Guinea in the Solomon Sea in Milne Bay Province of Papua New Guinea.

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Drab swiftlet

The drab swiftlet (Collocalia neglecta) is a small bird in the swift family Apodidae. Glossy swiftlet and drab swiftlet are Collocalia.

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Dyaul Island

Dyaul Island (also Djaul) is an island in New Ireland Province, Papua New Guinea.

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Edible-nest swiftlet

The edible-nest swiftlet (Aerodramus fuciphagus), also known as the white-nest swiftlet, is a small bird of the swift family which is found in Southeast Asia.

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Ernst Hartert

Ernst Johann Otto Hartert (29 October 1859 – 11 November 1933) was a widely published German ornithologist.

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Ernst Mayr

Ernst Walter Mayr (5 July 1904 – 3 February 2005) was a German-American evolutionary biologist.

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Erwin Stresemann

Erwin Friedrich Theodor Stresemann (22 November 1889, in Dresden – 20 November 1972, in East Berlin) was a German naturalist and ornithologist.

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Finn Salomonsen

Finn Salomonsen (31 January 1909 – 23 April 1983) was a Danish ornithologist.

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Flores Sea

The Flores Sea covers of water in Indonesia.

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George Robert Gray

George Robert Gray (8 July 1808 – 6 May 1872) was an English zoologist and author, and head of the ornithological section of the British Museum, now the Natural History Museum, in London for forty-one years.

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Grey-rumped swiftlet

The grey-rumped swiftlet (Collocalia marginata) or grey-rumped swiftlet, is a small bird in the swift family Apodidae. Glossy swiftlet and grey-rumped swiftlet are Collocalia.

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Indonesia

Indonesia, officially the Republic of Indonesia, is a country in Southeast Asia and Oceania between the Indian and Pacific oceans.

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International Union for Conservation of Nature

The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) is an international organization working in the field of nature conservation and sustainable use of natural resources.

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Karkar Island

Karkar Island is an oval-shaped volcanic island located in the Bismarck Sea, about off the north coast of mainland Papua New Guinea in Madang Province, from which it is separated by the Isumrud Strait.

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Least-concern species

A least-concern species is a species that has been categorized by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) as evaluated as not being a focus of wildlife conservation because the specific species is still plentiful in the wild.

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Lihir Group

Lihir Group is an island group in New Ireland Province, Papua New Guinea, located north of New Ireland, at.

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Long Island (Papua New Guinea)

Long Island (known locally as Pono, and as Arop or Ahrup on the New Guinean mainland) is a populated volcanic island in Madang Province, Papua New Guinea.

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Louisiade Archipelago

The Louisiade Archipelago is a string of ten larger volcanic islands frequently fringed by coral reefs, and 90 smaller coral islands in Papua New Guinea.

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Makira

The island of Makira (previously known as San Cristóbal) is the largest island of Makira-Ulawa Province in Solomon Islands.

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Maluku Islands

The Maluku Islands (Indonesian: Kepulauan Maluku) or the Moluccas are an archipelago in the eastern part of Indonesia.

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New Britain

New Britain (Niu Briten) is the largest island in the Bismarck Archipelago, part of the Islands Region of Papua New Guinea.

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New Guinea

New Guinea (Hiri Motu: Niu Gini; Papua, fossilized Nugini, or historically Irian) is the world's second-largest island, with an area of.

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New Hanover Island

New Hanover Island, (Neuhannover), also called Lavongai, is a large volcanic island in the New Ireland Province of Papua New Guinea.

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New Ireland (island)

New Ireland (Tok Pisin: Niu Ailan), or Latangai, is a large island in Papua New Guinea, approximately in area with 120,000 people.

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Nissan Island

Nissan Island (also Green Island or Sir Charles Hardy Island) is the largest of the Green Islands of Papua New Guinea.

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Numfor

Numfor (also Numfoor, Noemfoor, Noemfoer) is one of the Biak Islands (also known as the Schouten Islands) in Papua province, northeastern Indonesia.

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Oscar Neumann

Oscar Rudolph Neumann (3 September 1867 in Berlin – 17 May 1946 in Chicago) was a German ornithologist and naturalist who explored and collected specimens in Africa.

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Papua New Guinea

Papua New Guinea, officially the Independent State of Papua New Guinea, is a country in Oceania that comprises the eastern half of the island of New Guinea and its offshore islands in Melanesia (a region of the southwestern Pacific Ocean north of Australia).

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Plume-toed swiftlet

The plume-toed swiftlet (Collocalia affinis) is a small bird in the swift family Apodidae. Glossy swiftlet and plume-toed swiftlet are Collocalia.

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Rennell Island

Rennell Island, locally known as Mugaba, is the main island of two inhabited islands that make up the Rennell and Bellona Province in the nation state of Solomon Islands.

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Ridgetop swiftlet

The ridgetop swiftlet (Collocalia isonota) is a small bird in the swift family Apodidae. Glossy swiftlet and ridgetop swiftlet are Collocalia.

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Sangihe Islands

The Sangihe Islands (also spelled "Sangir", "Sanghir" or "Sangi") – Kepulauan Sangihe – are a group of islands that constitute two regencies within the province of North Sulawesi, in northern Indonesia, the Sangihe Islands Regency (Kabupaten Kepulauan Sangihe) and the Sitaro Islands Regency (Kabupaten Siau Tagulandang Biaro).

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Satin swiftlet

The satin swiftlet (Collocalia uropygialis) is a small bird in the swift family Apodidae. Glossy swiftlet and satin swiftlet are birds of Melanesia and Collocalia.

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Shortland Island

Shortland Island (once known as Alu) is the largest island of the Shortland Islands archipelago, in the Western Province of Solomon Islands, at.

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Solomon Islands

Solomon Islands, also known simply as the Solomons,John Prados, Islands of Destiny, Dutton Caliber, 2012, p,20 and passim is a country consisting of 21 major islands Guadalcanal, Malaita, Makira, Santa Isabel, Choiseul, New Georgia, Kolombangara, Rennell, Vella Lavella, Vangunu, Nendo, Maramasike, Rendova, Shortland, San Jorge, Banie, Ranongga, Pavuvu, Nggela Pile and Nggela Sule, Tetepare, (which are bigger in area than 100 square kilometres) and over 900 smaller islands in Melanesia, part of Oceania, to the northeast of Australia.

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Species description

A species description is a formal scientific description of a newly encountered species, typically articulated through a scientific publication.

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Sula Islands Regency

The Sula Islands Regency (Kabupaten Kepulauan Sula) is one of the regencies in North Maluku province of Indonesia.

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Sulawesi

Sulawesi, also known as Celebes, is an island in Indonesia.

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Swift (bird)

The swifts are a family, Apodidae, of highly aerial birds.

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Systema Naturae

(originally in Latin written with the ligature æ) is one of the major works of the Swedish botanist, zoologist and physician Carl Linnaeus (1707–1778) and introduced the Linnaean taxonomy.

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Tabar Island

Tabar Island is an island of the Tabar Group of Papua New Guinea, located to the east of New Ireland.

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Talaud Islands Regency

The Talaud Islands Regency (Kabupaten Kepulauan Talaud) is a regency of North Sulawesi province, Indonesia.

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Tanah Jampea

Tanah Jampea, also variously known as Tanah Djampea, Tanahjampea, Jampea Island and Pulau Jampea, is the second largest island of the Selayar Islands group in Indonesia’s South Sulawesi Province.

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Tenggara swiftlet

The Tenggara swiftlet (Collocalia sumbawae) is a small bird in the swift family Apodidae. Glossy swiftlet and Tenggara swiftlet are Collocalia.

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Tolokiwa Island

Tolokiwa Island, also known as Lottin Island, is an island in the Bismarck Sea.

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Trobriand Islands

The Trobriand Islands are a archipelago of coral atolls off the east coast of New Guinea.

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Type (biology)

In biology, a type is a particular specimen (or in some cases a group of specimens) of an organism to which the scientific name of that organism is formally associated.

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Vitu Islands

The Vitu Islands are a volcanic group with an area of 37 sq mi (96 km2) located in the Bismarck Sea off New Britain, in the southwestern Pacific Ocean.

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Waigeo

Waigeo is an island in the Southwest Papua province of eastern Indonesia.

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Walter Rothschild, 2nd Baron Rothschild

Lionel Walter Rothschild, 2nd Baron Rothschild, Baron de Rothschild, (8 February 1868 – 27 August 1937) was a British banker, politician, zoologist and soldier, who was a member of the Rothschild family.

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White-rumped swiftlet

The white-rumped swiftlet (Aerodramus spodiopygius) is a species of swift in the family Apodidae.

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William Robert Ogilvie-Grant

William Robert Ogilvie-Grant (25 March 1863 – 26 July 1924) was a Scottish ornithologist.

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Woodlark Island

Woodlark Island, known to its inhabitants simply as Woodlark or Muyua, is the main island of the Woodlark Islands archipelago, located in Milne Bay Province and the Solomon Sea, Papua New Guinea.

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Yapen

Yapen (also Japan, Jobi) is an island of Papua, Indonesia.

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10th edition of Systema Naturae

The 10th edition of Systema Naturae (Latin; the English title is A General System of Nature) is a book written by Swedish naturalist Carl Linnaeus and published in two volumes in 1758 and 1759, which marks the starting point of zoological nomenclature.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glossy_swiftlet

Also known as Collocalia cyanoptila, Collocalia esculenta, Collocalia nitens, Grey-rumped Swiftlet.

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See also

Birds of Melanesia

Collocalia

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