燕鵙科(學名:Artamidae)是鸟纲雀形目中的一个科,分布於南亞澳洲以及印太地區海域的島嶼(如斐濟[1]

燕鵙科
化石时期:中新世早期至現在
Cracticus nigrogularis英语Pied butcherbird
科学分类 编辑
界: 动物界 Animalia
门: 脊索动物门 Chordata
纲: 鸟纲 Aves
目: 雀形目 Passeriformes
科: 燕鵙科 Artamidae
Vigors, 1825
亞科

本科包括有24個現生種,分屬三個亞科、六個屬:

Artamids used to be 單型, containing only the woodswallows, but it was expanded to include the family Cracticidae in 1994. Some authors, however, still treat the two as separate families.[2] Some species in this family are known for their beautiful song. Their feeding habits vary from nectar sucking (woodswallows) to predation on small birds (pied currawong).

粗而短,體型似燕,因而得名。而其多於森林活動,故又有「森燕」[1](Woodswallow[3])一稱。

種類

參考文獻

  1. ^ 1.0 1.1 林春輝. 世界動物圖鑑 6. 光復書局. 1999. ISBN 957-42-0398-0. 
  2. ^ Les Christidis & Walter E. Boles. Systematics and Taxonomy of Australian Birds. CSIRO Publishing. 2008: 174 [2020-12-28]. ISBN 978-0-643-06511-6. (原始内容存档于2021-09-28). 
  3. ^ Rowley, Ian; Russell, Eleanor. Family Artamidae (Woodswallows). del Hoyo, Josep; Elliott, Andrew; Christie, David (编). Handbook of the Birds of the World. Volume 14: Bush-shrikes to Old World Sparrows. Barcelona: Lynx Edicions. 2009: 286–307. ISBN 978-84-96553-50-7.