crested swift.
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crested swift — ▪ bird also called Tree Swift (family Hemiprocnidae), any of three or four species of fork tailed forest birds ranging from Southeast Asia and Australia to the Solomon Islands. Crested swifts differ from all other members of the order… … Universalium
crested swift — noun birds of southeast Asia and East Indies differing from true swifts in having upright crests and nesting in trees • Syn: ↑tree swift • Hypernyms: ↑apodiform bird • Member Holonyms: ↑Hemiprocnidae, ↑family Hemiprocnidae … Useful english dictionary
crested swift. — See tree swift … Useful english dictionary
Crested Treeswift — Conservation status Least Concern (IUCN 3.1) … Wikipedia
Crested Servaline Genet — Crested Servaline Genet[1] Conservation status Vulnerable (IUCN 3.1)[2 … Wikipedia
tree swift — noun birds of southeast Asia and East Indies differing from true swifts in having upright crests and nesting in trees • Syn: ↑crested swift • Hypernyms: ↑apodiform bird • Member Holonyms: ↑Hemiprocnidae, ↑family Hemiprocnidae * * * … Useful english dictionary
tree swift — any of several birds of the family Hemiprocnidae, of southeast Asia and the East Indies, related to the true swifts but differing in having erectile crests and the habit of perching in trees. Also, tree swift. Also called crested swift. * * * … Universalium
Greater Crested Tern — Breeding plumage T. b. cristata displaying Conservation status … Wikipedia
apodiform — ▪ bird Introduction any member of one of two groups of birds (bird), the swifts (swift) and the hummingbirds (hummingbird), that are very different from one another in general appearance and way of life. The two groups, considered suborders,… … Universalium
bird — birdless, adj. /berrd/, n. 1. any warm blooded vertebrate of the class Aves, having a body covered with feathers, forelimbs modified into wings, scaly legs, a beak, and no teeth, and bearing young in a hard shelled egg. 2. a fowl or game bird. 3 … Universalium
