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 LC    Ethiopian Swallow* Id (Atlas):
    Hirundo aethiopica

Description (10)
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Family
Hirundinidae (Swallows And Martins)

Size
15 cm

First Described (Guide)
Blanford, 1869

Range (Guide)
Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Congo [The Democratic Republic of the], Côte dIvoire, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Ghana, Guinea, Kenya, Mali, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Somalia, Sudan, Tanzania [United Republic of], Togo, Uganda.

Vagrant to Israel.

Population
Estimated population is unknown (2010).

Status LC
For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.

Voice
Xeno-Canto Sound Files (more (5)...)

 
Ethiopian Swallow (Hirundo aethiopica) [XC602405]
     by Sun Madakan from University Campus, Maiduguri, Borno, Nigeria (call, flight call, song)

 
Ethiopian Swallow (Hirundo aethiopica) [XC711930]
     by Andrew Spencer from University Campus, Maiduguri, Borno, Nigeria (call, song)

Subspecies
Forms a superspecies with Barn Swallow (Hirundo rustica), Red-chested Swallow (Hirundo lucida), Angola Swallow (Hirundo angolensis), Welcome Swallow (Hirundo neoxena), White-throated Swallow (Hirundo albigularis) and Tahiti Swallow (Hirundo tahitica). Birds from western Africa east to Sudan sometimes separated as subspecies fulvipectus on basis of more buffy throat and breast, but probably indistinguishable from nominate.

The following 2 subspecies are recognised:

  • aethiopica Blanford, 1869   -  Senegambia, Guinea, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, Benin, and from eastern Mali, northern Burkina Faso, southern Niger and central Chad south to northern Cameroon and northern Central African Republic and east to central and south-eastern Sudan, western Ethiopia, northern Uganda, northern and south-eastern Kenya and north-eastern Tanzania.
  • amadoni White, CMN, 1956   -  Eastern Ethiopia, Somalia and north-eastern Kenya.



References
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Files:
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