Drab Swiftlet (Collocalia neglecta)
About the Drab Swiftlet
The drab swiftlet (Collocalia neglecta) is a small bird in the swift family Apodidae. It is endemic to the Lesser Sunda Islands in Indonesia. It was formerly treated as a subspecies of the glossy swiftlet. The drab swiftlet was described by the English zoologist George Robert Gray in 1866 under the binomial name Collocalia neglecta. The type locality is the island of Timor in the Lesser Sunda Islands. The specific epithet neglecta is from the Latin neglectus meaning "ignored", "overlooked" or "neglected". It was formerly treated as a subspecies of the glossy swiftlet but was raised to species status based on a detailed analysis of the swiftlets in the genus Collocalia published in 2017. There are two subspecies: C. n. neglecta Gray, GR, 1866 – southern Lesser Sunda Islands
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Listed as recorded in Indonesia in the xeno-canto catalogue.
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- Tenggara SwiftletCollocalia sumbawaerecording
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