Antillean Palm Swift Tachornis phoenicobia Scientific name definitions
Omyia Damaj
Version: 1.0 — Published March 4, 2020
Text last updated November 14, 2014
Text last updated November 14, 2014
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Species names in all available languages
Language | Common name |
---|---|
Catalan | falciot de les palmeres de les Antilles |
Czech | rorýs kubánský |
Dutch | Cubaanse Palmgierzwaluw |
English | Antillean Palm Swift |
English (United States) | Antillean Palm Swift |
French | Martinet petit-rollé |
French (France) | Martinet petit-rollé |
German | Kubasegler |
Haitian Creole (Haiti) | Jòljòl |
Icelandic | Eyjasvölungur |
Japanese | アメリカヤシアマツバメ |
Norwegian | karibseiler |
Polish | widłogończyk antylski |
Russian | Антильский стрижик |
Serbian | Antilska palmina čiopa |
Slovak | dážďovník čierno-biely |
Spanish | Vencejillo Antillano |
Spanish (Cuba) | Vencejito de palma |
Spanish (Dominican Republic) | Vencejito Palmar |
Spanish (Puerto Rico) | Vencejo Antillano |
Spanish (Spain) | Vencejillo antillano |
Swedish | karibisk palmseglare |
Turkish | Antil Palmiye Ebabili |
Ukrainian | Серпокрилець-крихітка антильський |
Tachornis phoenicobia Gosse, 1847
PROTONYM:
Tachornis phoenicobia
Gosse, 1847. The birds of Jamaica, p.58.
TYPE LOCALITY:
Jamaica.
SOURCE:
Avibase, 2023
Definitions
- TACHORNIS
- phoenicobia / phoenicobius
The Key to Scientific Names
Legend Overview
UPPERCASE: current genus
Uppercase first letter: generic synonym
● and ● See: generic homonyms
lowercase: species and subspecies
●: early names, variants, misspellings
‡: extinct
†: type species
Gr.: ancient Greek
L.: Latin
<: derived from
syn: synonym of
/: separates historical and modern geographic names
ex: based on
TL: type locality
OD: original diagnosis (genus) or original description (species)
Introduction
Antillean Palm-swift is a small blackish brown and white swift with a distinctly forked tail. Mainly found in low, seasonally wet grasslands and second growth scrub in the Greater Antilles, Antillean Palm-Swift spends most of the day on the wing in search of flying insects. Very adaptable, it often is found in close association with humans, even in large cities, using planted royal palms for nesting and roosting. Due to its adaptability to human-modified environments, the population of Antillean Palm-Swift is believed to be stable.