General
Information is based on dictionaries and other sources. Species list may not be current. Korean glosses are only tentative. Comments and corrections welcome.
The wood swallows occur only in the far south of Japan in Iriomote. They are known literally as モリツバメ (森燕) mori-tsubame 'wood swallow', a direct translation from the English.
Species names
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Artamus leucorhynchus |
White-breasted woodswallow White-breasted wood swallow Langrayen à ventre blanc Weissbauch-Schwalbenstar Белобрюхий ласточковый сорокопут |
モリツバメ (森燕) mori-tsubame 'forest-swallow' |
白胸燕鵙 (白胸燕鵙) 'white-breasted swallow-shrike' |
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