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 LC    Fanti Sawwing* Id (Atlas):
    Psalidoprocne obscura

Description (10)
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Other Names (World)
Fanti Saw-wing, Fanti Sawwing, Fanti Roughwing, Fantee Roughwing

Family
Hirundinidae (Swallows And Martins)

Size
17 cm

First Described (Guide)
(Hartlaub, 1855)

Habitat
Subtropical and tropical lowland dry grassland, dry savanna.

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

Vagrant to Niger.

Southern Senegambia east to central and southern Nigeria and western Cameroon.
 
Population
Estimated population is unknown (2010).

Status LC
For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.

Voice
Xeno-Canto Sound Files (more (1)...)

 
Fanti Saw-wing (Psalidoprocne obscura) [XC425278]
     by Peter Boesman from Abuko Nature Reserve, Gambia (call)

 
Fanti Saw-wing (Psalidoprocne obscura) [XC425262]
     by id from Serrekunda, Kombo North, West Coast Region, Gambia (song)

Subspecies
No subspecies.

Forms a superspecies with Black Saw-wing (Psalidoprocne pristoptera).


References
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Files:
JPG files for Fanti Sawwing (Psalidoprocne obscura) - 10 files


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