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 LC    Lesser Striped-Swallow* Id (Atlas):
    Cecropis abyssinica

Description (10)
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Other Names (World)
Lesser Striped Swallow, Lesser Striped-Swallow, Striped Swallow

Family
Hirundinidae (Swallows And Martins)

Size
19 cm

First Described (Guide)
(Guérin-Méneville, 1843)

Habitat
Subtropical and tropical lowland dry grassland, dry savanna. From sea-level - 2,000 m.

Range (Guide)
Angola, Benin, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Congo [The Democratic Republic of the], Congo [The Democratic Republic of the], Côte dIvoire, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gabon, Ghana, Guinea, Kenya, Lesotho (B), Liberia, Malawi, Mali, Mozambique, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Rwanda, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Africa, Sudan, Swaziland, Tanzania [United Republic of], Togo, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe.

Vagrant to Chad, Gambia, Madagascar, Oman, Sâo Tomé e Principe.

Population
Estimated population is unknown (2010).

Status LC
For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.

Voice
Xeno-Canto Sound Files (more (88)...)

 
Lesser Striped Swallow (Cecropis abyssinica) [XC445449]
     by Andres Angulo Rubiano from Kruger Park (near Kruger National Park), Mopani, Limpopo, South Africa (alarm call)

 
Lesser Striped Swallow (Cecropis abyssinica) [XC227603]
     by Martin St-Michel from Lake Mburo National Park, Kiruhura, Western Region, Uganda (call, flight call, song)

Subspecies
Genus often merged with Hirundo, but DNA studies support retention of separate taxa. Often considered to form a superspecies with Greater Striped-Swallow (Cecropis cucullata), although ranges overlap widely in southern Africa. Subspecies unitatis intergrades with nominate in southern Sudan and Kenya, and probably overlaps in range with ampliformis in south.

The following 6 subspecies are recognised:

  • puella (Temminck & Schlegel, 1845)   -  Senegambia and Sierra Leone east to northern Cameroon.
  • maxima (Bannerman, 1923)   -  South-eastern Nigeria, southern Cameroon and south-western Central African Republic. Also Bioko (Fernando Póo).
  • bannermani (Grant, CHB & Mackworth-Praed, 1942)   -  Western and south-western Sudan and north-eastern Central African Republic.
  • abyssinica (Guérin-Méneville, 1843)   -  Eastern Sudan and Ethiopia.
  • unitatis (Sclater, WL & Mackworth-Praed, 1918)   -  Equatorial Guinea and Gabon east to southern Sudan, Kenya and southern Somalia, south to central Angola, eastern Zambia, Zimbabwe, eastern Botswana, Mozambique and eastern South Africa.
  • ampliformis (Clancey, 1969)   -  Southern Angola and northern Namibia east to western Zambia and north-western Zimbabwe.



References
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Files:
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