Siberian house martin

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Siberian house martin
Delichon urbicum lagopodum 1894.jpg
Illustration by Richard Bowdler Sharpe

Least Concern (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification edit
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Hirundinidae
Genus: Delichon
Species:
D. lagopodum
Binomial name
Delichon lagopodum
(Pallas, 1811)

The Siberian house martin or eastern house martin (Delichon lagopodum) is a passerine bird in the swallow family Hirundinidae. It breeds in rocky areas of northeastern Russia, Mongolia and northern China and winters in Myanmar, Laos, Vietnam and Cambodia. It was formerly considered conspecific with the common house martin.

Taxonomy[]

The Siberian house martin was formally described in 1811 by the German naturalist Peter Simon Pallas under the binomial name Hirundo lagopoda. He specified the locality as Dauria, a mountainous region to the east of Lake Baikal in Russia.[2][3] The specific epithet combines the Ancient Greek lagōs meaning "hare" with pous, podos meaning foot.[4] The Siberian house martin is now placed in the genus Delichon.[5] This martin was formerly considered to be a subspecies of the common house martin but was promoted to species status based on morphological and vocal differences.[5][6] The species is monotypic: no subspecies are recognised.[5]

References[]

  1. ^ BirdLife International (2016). "Delichon lagopodum". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2016. Retrieved 19 July 2021.
  2. ^ Pallas, Peter Simon (1831) [First published in 1811]. Zoographia Rosso-Asiatica (in Latin). Volume 1. Petropoli [Saint Petersburg]: In officina Caes. Acadamiae Scientiarum Impress. pp. 532–534. |volume= has extra text (help)
  3. ^ Mayr, Ernst; Greenway, James C. Jr, eds. (1960). Check-List of Birds of the World. Volume 9. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Museum of Comparative Zoology. p. 124. |volume= has extra text (help)
  4. ^ Jobling, James A. (2010). The Helm Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names. London: Christopher Helm. p. 217. ISBN 978-1-4081-2501-4.
  5. ^ a b c Gill, Frank; Donsker, David; Rasmussen, Pamela, eds. (July 2021). "Swallows". IOC World Bird List Version 11.2. International Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved 19 July 2021.
  6. ^ Leader, P.; Carey, G.; Schweizer, M. (2021). "The identification, taxonomy and distribution of Western, Siberian and Asian House Martins". British Birds. 114: 72–96.


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