Species profile
Moustached Treeswift
Hemiprocne mystacea
Quick answer
Local name Man Pias (Sansundi). Range H. m. mystacea Biak, Supiori, Numfor and Yapen. Status Resident. Widespread, moderately common, and recorded by most visitors but surprisingly only two specimens, collected by H. A. Lorentz on Supiori in July 1903 (de Beaufort 1909).
- Scientific name
- Hemiprocne mystacea
- Family
- Hemiprocnidae
- Order
- Apodiformes
- Genus
- Hemiprocne
- Conservation status
- Least Concern
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