Ethiopian Swallow (Hirundo aethiopica) [XC611149]
by Sun Madakan from Abrafo Forest, Ghana (song)
Ethiopian Swallow (Hirundo aethiopica) [XC711930]
by Andrew Spencer from University Campus, Maiduguri, Borno, Nigeria (call, song)
Subspecies
Forms a superspecies with Barn Swallow (Hirundo rustica), Red-chested Swallow (Hirundo lucida), Angola Swallow (Hirundo angolensis), Welcome Swallow (Hirundo neoxena), White-throated Swallow (Hirundo albigularis) and Tahiti Swallow (Hirundo tahitica). Birds from western Africa east to Sudan sometimes separated as subspecies fulvipectus on basis of more buffy throat and breast, but probably indistinguishable from nominate.
The following 2 subspecies are recognised:
aethiopica Blanford, 1869 - Senegambia, Guinea, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, Benin, and from eastern Mali, northern Burkina Faso, southern Niger and central Chad south to northern Cameroon and northern Central African Republic and east to central and south-eastern Sudan, western Ethiopia, northern Uganda, northern and south-eastern Kenya and north-eastern Tanzania.
amadoni White, CMN, 1956 - Eastern Ethiopia, Somalia and north-eastern Kenya.
BirdLife International Species Factsheet