Square-tailed Sawwing (Psalidoprocne nitens)

Other Names (World)
Square-tailed Saw-wing, Square-tailed Sawwing, Roughwing Swallow, Square-tailed Roughwing Swallow

Family
Hirundinidae (Swallows And Martins)

Size
11 cm

First Described (Guide)
(Cassin, 1857)

Habitat
Subtropical and tropical lowland moist forest.

Range (Guide)

Angola, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Congo [The Democratic Republic of the], Congo [The Democratic Republic of the], C�te dIvoire, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Ghana, Guinea, Liberia, Nigeria, Sierra Leone.

Population
Estimated population is unknown (2010).

Status LC
For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.

Voice
Xeno-Canto Sound Files (more (3)...)

Square-tailed Saw-wing (Psalidoprocne nitens) [XC99711]
by Mike Nelson from Njotin agricultural fields 2, Njotin, Cameroon (call)

Square-tailed Saw-wing (Psalidoprocne nitens) [XC99710]
by Mike Nelson from Bandjoun Palace, Bandjoun, Cameroon (call)

Subspecies
The following 2 subspecies are recognised:

nitens (Cassin, 1857) - Southern Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, southern Ivory Coast, southern Ghana, and from south-eastern Nigeria east to northern and central DRCongo and south to Gabon, PRCongo and extreme north-western Angola (Cabinda).
centralis Neumann, 1904 - North-eastern DRCongo.

References
See References.

Files:

JPG files for Square-tailed Sawwing (Psalidoprocne nitens) - 10 files

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