''Tachornis'' is a genus of
swift
Swift or SWIFT most commonly refers to:
* SWIFT, an international organization facilitating transactions between banks
** SWIFT code
* Swift (programming language)
* Swift (bird), a family of birds
It may also refer to:
Organizations
* SWIF ...
in the family
Apodidae
The Apodidae, or swifts, form a family of highly aerial birds. They are superficially similar to swallows, but are not closely related to any passerine species. Swifts are placed in the order Apodiformes along with hummingbirds. The treeswifts ar ...
. It contains the following species:
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Pygmy palm swift
The pygmy palm swift (''Tachornis furcata''), also known as the pygmy swift, is a species of bird in subfamily Apodinae of the swift family Apodidae. It is found in Colombia and Venezuela.HBW and BirdLife International (2021) Handbook of the Bi ...
(''Tachornis furcata'')
*
Fork-tailed palm swift
The fork-tailed palm swift or Neotropical palm swift (''Tachornis squamata'') is a species of bird in subfamily Apodinae of the swift family Apodidae. It is found across most of northern South America and on Trinidad and Tobago.HBW and BirdLife ...
(''Tachornis squamata'')
*
Antillean palm swift
The Antillean palm swift (''Tachornis phoenicobia'') is a species of bird in subfamily Apodinae of the swift family Apodidae. It is found on the Caribbean islands of Cuba, Jamaica, and Hispaniola (shared by the Dominican Republic and Haiti).HBW ...
(''Tachornis phoenicobia'')
* ''Tachornis uranoceles'' (
fossil
A fossil (from Classical Latin , ) is any preserved remains, impression, or trace of any once-living thing from a past geological age. Examples include bones, shells, exoskeletons, stone imprints of animals or microbes, objects preserve ...
;
Late Pleistocene
The Late Pleistocene is an unofficial Age (geology), age in the international geologic timescale in chronostratigraphy, also known as the Upper Pleistocene from a Stratigraphy, stratigraphic perspective. It is intended to be the fourth division ...
of
Puerto Rico
; abbreviated PR), officially the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, is a Government of Puerto Rico, self-governing Caribbean Geography of Puerto Rico, archipelago and island organized as an Territories of the United States, unincorporated territo ...
)
References
Bird genera
Taxa named by Philip Henry Gosse
Taxonomy articles created by Polbot
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