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 NR    West African Swallow* Id (Atlas):
    Hirundo domicella

Description (7)
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Other Names (World)
West African Swallow, Lowland Swallow

Family
Hirundinidae (Swallows And Martins)

Size
16 - 18 cm

First Described (Guide)
Hartlaub & Finsch, 1870

Habitat
Mostly area above wetlands and open country, including swamps, rivers, sewerage ponds and tailings dams and grasslands and coasts.

Range (Guide)
Benin, Cameroon, Ethiopia, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea-bissau, Mali, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Sudan.

Africa from Senegambia and Guinea east to Sudan and south-western Ethiopia.
 
Population
Estimated population is unknown (2011).

Status NR
For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.

Subspecies
No subspecies.

Not recognised by BirdLife International. Red-rumped Swallow (Cecropis daurica) and West African Swallow (Hirundo domicella) (Sibley and Monroe 1990, 1993) have been lumped into Hirundo daurica following Dowsett and Forbes-Watson (1993).

Considered by some authors to be a subspecies of Red-rumped Swallow (Cecropis daurica).


References
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