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 LC    Pied-winged Swallow* Id (Atlas):
    Hirundo leucosoma

Description (10)
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Family
Hirundinidae (Swallows And Martins)

Size
12 cm

First Described (Guide)
Swainson, 1837

Habitat
Inland wetlands, dry savanna.

Range (Guide)
Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Côte dIvoire, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-bissau, Mali, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Togo.

Senegambia, northern Guinea, north-western Sierra Leone, southern Mali, Burkina Faso, south-western Niger, and northern Ivory Coast and Ghana east to central Nigeria.
 
Population
Estimated population is unknown (2010).

Status LC
For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.

Voice
Xeno-Canto Sound Files

 
Pied-winged Swallow (Hirundo leucosoma) [XC405705]
     by Bram Piot from Dindefelo-Segou, K\u00e9dougou, Senegal (song)

 
Pied-winged Swallow (Hirundo leucosoma) [XC405703]
     by id from Dindefelo-Segou, K\u00e9dougou, Senegal (song)

Subspecies
No subspecies.

In the past was sometimes placed with White-tailed Swallow (Hirundo megaensis) and Pearl-breasted Swallow (Hirundo dimidiata) in a separate genus Hemicecrops, and these three have been considered by some authors to form a superspecies.


References
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Files:
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