Lesser Striped Swallow (Cecropis abyssinica)

Other Names (World)
Lesser Striped Swallow, Lesser Striped-Swallow, Striped Swallow

Family
Hirundinidae (Swallows And Martins)

Size
19 cm

First Described (Guide)
(Gu�rin-M�neville, 1843)

Habitat
Subtropical and tropical lowland dry grassland, dry savanna. From sea-level - 2,000 m.

Range (Guide)

Angola, Benin, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Congo [The Democratic Republic of the], Congo [The Democratic Republic of the], C�te dIvoire, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gabon, Ghana, Guinea, Kenya, Lesotho (B), Liberia, Malawi, Mali, Mozambique, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Rwanda, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Africa, Sudan, Swaziland, Tanzania [United Republic of], Togo, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe.

Vagrant to Chad, Gambia, Madagascar, Oman, S�o Tom� e Principe.

Rarity Status
Currently this species is not classified as a rarity in this country OR information has not been updated.

Population
Estimated population is unknown (2010).

Status LC
For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.

Voice
Xeno-Canto Sound Files (more (88)...)

Lesser Striped Swallow (Cecropis abyssinica) [XC876204]
by Marc Anderson from Makhado Local Municipality (near Louis Trichardt), Vhembe District Municipality, Limpopo, South Africa (call)

Lesser Striped Swallow (Cecropis abyssinica) [XC518603]
by Andres Angulo Rubiano from Mkhuze Game Reserve, Kwazulu-Natal, South Africa (song)

Subspecies
Genus often merged with Hirundo, but DNA studies support retention of separate taxa. Often considered to form a superspecies with Greater Striped Swallow (Cecropis cucullata), although ranges overlap widely in southern Africa. Subspecies unitatis intergrades with nominate in southern Sudan and Kenya, and probably overlaps in range with ampliformis in south.

The following 6 subspecies are recognised:

puella (Temminck & Schlegel, 1845) - Senegambia and Sierra Leone east to northern Cameroon.
maxima (Bannerman, 1923) - South-eastern Nigeria, southern Cameroon and south-western Central African Republic. Also Bioko (Fernando P�o).
bannermani (Grant, CHB & Mackworth-Praed, 1942) - Western and south-western Sudan and north-eastern Central African Republic.
abyssinica (Gu�rin-M�neville, 1843) - Eastern Sudan and Ethiopia.
unitatis (Sclater, WL & Mackworth-Praed, 1918) - Equatorial Guinea and Gabon east to southern Sudan, Kenya and southern Somalia, south to central Angola, eastern Zambia, Zimbabwe, eastern Botswana, Mozambique and eastern South Africa.
ampliformis (Clancey, 1969) - Southern Angola and northern Namibia east to western Zambia and north-western Zimbabwe.

References
See References.

Files:

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