Striated Swallow (Cecropis striolata) [XC637236]
by Bram Piot from Dawu Township, Taiwan (call)
Striated Swallow (Cecropis striolata) [XC289989]
by Albert Lastukhin & Yuri Glushchenko from Tatkon, Yamethin, Naypyidaw Union Territory, Myanmar (call)
Nest
Retort or bottle shaped, composed of mud pellets and lined with dried grasses and feathers, in natural caves, on bridges, in culverts and on buildings.
Eggs (Guide)
5, sometimes 5; white. Incubation: by both sexes.
Subspecies
Red-rumped Swallow (Cecropis daurica) (Dowsett and Forbes-Watson 1993), Striated Swallow (Hirundo striolata) (Sibley and Monroe 1990, 1993) and Rufous-bellied Swallow (Hirundo badia) (given specific status by Turner 2004) have been lumped into Hirundo daurica because examination of morphological differences suggests size and boldness of streaking are clinal characters and evidence for sympatric breeding and reported vocal differences is inadequate.
Forms a superspecies with Red-rumped Swallow (Cecropis daurica) and Rufous-bellied Swallow (Hirundo badia), the three replacing each other geographically. Sometimes treated as conspecific with Red-rumped Swallow (Cecropis daurica), subspecies japonica of which is intermediate between nominate subspecies of that species and present species. Often considered conspecific also with Rufous-bellied Swallow (Hirundo badia), but recent review suggests that they are separate species.
The following 4 subspecies are recognised:
mayri (Hall, BP, 1953) - North-eastern Bangladesh, north-eastern India, northern Myanmar and southern China (south-western Yunnan). Winters north, eastern and southern Myanmar, north-western Thailand and Vietnam (eastern Tonkin, central Annam).
stanfordi (Mayr, 1941) - Northern, eastern and southern Myanmar, north-western and north-eastern Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, central and southern Annam and Cochinchina.
vernayi (Kinnear, 1924) - Southern Myanmar (northern Tenasserim) and western Thailand.
striolata Temminck & Schlegel, 1847 - Taiwan, Philippines, Greater Sundas, and Lesser Sundas east to Wetar and Timor.
BirdLife International Species Factsheet