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| − | Small size but robust with all blackish underparts, dark bluish gloss upperparts, prominent silvery-white lower back, rump and uppertail-coverts, short square-cut tail, very broad paddle-shaped wings and bare shafts (spines) extending from tail-tip. Juvenile has less glossy underparts. | + | Small size (11 cm) but robust with all blackish underparts, dark bluish gloss upperparts, prominent silvery-white lower back, rump and uppertail-coverts, short square-cut tail, very broad paddle-shaped wings and bare shafts (spines) extending from tail-tip. Juvenile has less glossy underparts. |
==Distribution== | ==Distribution== | ||
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Alternative names: Silver-rumped Spinetailed Swift; Silver-rumped Needletail
- Rhaphidura leucopygialis
Identification
Small size (11 cm) but robust with all blackish underparts, dark bluish gloss upperparts, prominent silvery-white lower back, rump and uppertail-coverts, short square-cut tail, very broad paddle-shaped wings and bare shafts (spines) extending from tail-tip. Juvenile has less glossy underparts.
Distribution
Brunei, Indonesia, Malaysia, Myanmar, Singapore, and Thailand.
Taxonomy
Monotypic
Habitat
Moist lowland forests.
Behaviour
Roosts in large tree hollows in the emergent canopy.
