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 LC    Pale Crag-Martin* Id (Atlas):
    Ptyonoprogne obsoleta

Description (10)
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Family
Hirundinidae (Swallows And Martins)

Size
13 cm

First Described (Guide)
(Cabanis, 1850)

Range (Guide)
Algeria, Chad, Egypt, Eritrea, India, Iran [Islamic Republic of] (B), Iraq (P), Israel (B), Jordan (B) (NB), Libyan Arab Jamahiriya, Mauritania, Morocco, Niger, Oman (B), Pakistan, Palestinian Authority Territories (B), Saudi Arabia (B), Somalia, Sudan, Tunisia, United Arab Emirates (B), Western Sahara, Yemen (B).

Vagrant to Kuwait, Qatar.

Unknown to Afghanistan.

Egypt east to north, central and eastern Arabia and Iran.
 
Population
Estimated population is unknown (2010).

Status LC
For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.

Voice
Xeno-Canto Sound Files (more (11)...)

 
Pale Crag Martin (Ptyonoprogne obsoleta) [XC781456]
     by Thijs Fijen from Oman, Mudayy, Oman (flight call)

 
Pale Crag Martin (Ptyonoprogne obsoleta) [XC781544]
     by David Darrell-Lambert from Ayn Hamran, Dhofar Governorate, Oman (call, flight call)

Subspecies
Rock Martin (Hirundo fuligula) and Pale Crag-Martin (Ptyonoprogne obsoleta) (Sibley and Monroe 1990, 1993) are retained as species contra AERC TAC (2003) and Dowsett and Forbes-Watson (1993) who include obsoleta as a subspecies of Hirundo fuligula.

The following 7 subspecies are recognised:

  • spatzi (Geyr von Schweppenburg, 1916)   -  Southern Algeria, south-western Libya and northern Chad. Considered by some authors to be a subspecies of Rock Martin (Hirundo fuligula).
  • presaharica (Vaurie, 1953)   -  Southern Morocco, northern Mauritania and north-central Algeria. Considered by some authors to be a subspecies of Rock Martin (Hirundo fuligula).
  • buchanani (Hartert, 1921)   -  Niger. Considered by some authors to be a subspecies of Rock Martin (Hirundo fuligula).
  • obsoleta (Cabanis, 1850)   -  South-central, also northern Africa. Considered by some authors to be a subspecies of Rock Martin (Hirundo fuligula).
  • arabica (Reichenow, 1905)   -  Northern Chad to northern Sudan, south-western Arabia, northern Somalia and Socotra. Considered by some authors to be a subspecies of Rock Martin (Hirundo fuligula).
  • perpallida (Vaurie, 1951)   -  North-eastern Saudi Arabia and southern Iraq. Considered by some authors to be a subspecies of Rock Martin (Hirundo fuligula).
  • pallida Hume, 1872   -  Eastern Iran, southern Afghanistan and Pakistan. Considered by some authors to be a subspecies of Rock Martin (Hirundo fuligula).



References
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Files:
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