General names
Information is based on dictionaries and other sources. Species list may not be current. Comments and corrections welcome.
In Japanese, the wood swallows are known literally as モリツバメ (森燕) mori-tsubame 'wood swallows', a direct translation from the English. The birds occur in the far south of Japan.
Species names
SCIENTIFIC & WESTERN |
JAPANESE |
CHINESE |
KOREAN |
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Latin |
Eng, Fr, Ger, Ru |
Japanese |
Other J |
Chinese |
Chinese (Taiwan) |
Other Ch |
Korean |
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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' |
白胸燕䴗 (白胸燕鵙) 'white-breasted swallow shrike' |
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