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 LC    White-throated Blue Swallow* Id (Atlas):
    Hirundo nigrita

Description (10)
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Other Names (World)
White-bibbed Swallow, White-throated Blue Swallow, Little Blue Swallow, West African Swallow, White-chinned Swallow

Family
Hirundinidae (Swallows And Martins)

Size
14 cm

First Described (Guide)
Gray, 1845

Habitat
Subtropical and tropical lowland moist forest.

Range (Guide)
Angola, Benin, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Congo [The Democratic Republic of the], Congo [The Democratic Republic of the], Côte dIvoire, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-bissau, Liberia, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Uganda.

Sierra Leone, south-eastern Guinea, Liberia, and southern parts of Ivory Coast, Ghana, Benin and Nigeria, east to south-western Central African Republic and DRCongo (except north-eastern and south-east) and south to north-western and north-eastern Angola (south to Cuanza Norte, Malanje and Lunda Sul); possibly also extreme western Uganda (R Semliki).
 
Population
Estimated population is unknown (2010).

Status LC
For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.

Voice
Xeno-Canto Sound Files

 
White-bibbed Swallow (Hirundo nigrita) [XC217112]
     by id from Parc National de la For\u00eat de Ta\u00ef, Ivory Coast (call)

Subspecies
No subspecies.

Sometimes considered to form a superspecies with Wire-tailed Swallow (Hirundo smithii), but substantial plumage and other morphological differences, combined with extent of range overlap in Africa (Congo Basin), make this unlikely.


References
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Files:
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