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 LC    Mosque Swallow* Id (Atlas):
    Cecropis senegalensis

Description (10)
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Other Names (World)
Mosque Swallow, African Mosque Swallow

Family
Hirundinidae (Swallows And Martins)

Size
21 cm

First Described (Guide)
(Linnaeus, 1766)

Habitat
Subtropical and tropical lowland dry grassland and shrubland, temperate grassland, dry savanna. From sea-level - 2,800 m.

Range (Guide)
Angola, Benin, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Congo [The Democratic Republic of the], Congo [The Democratic Republic of the], Côte dIvoire, Equatorial Guinea, Ethiopia, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-bissau, Kenya, Malawi, Mali, Mauritania, Mozambique, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Rwanda, Senegal, South Africa, Sudan, Tanzania [United Republic of], Togo, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe.

Vagrant to Liberia, Somalia.

Population
Estimated population is unknown (2010).

Status LC
For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.

Voice
Xeno-Canto Sound Files (more (10)...)

 
Mosque Swallow (Cecropis senegalensis) [XC201371]
     by Peter Boesman from Manyoni, Singida, Tanzania (flight call)

 
Mosque Swallow (Cecropis senegalensis) [XC375035]
     by from Inselberg SE of Garoua, B\u00e9nou\u00e9, North, Cameroon (call)

Subspecies
Genus often merged with Hirundo, but DNA studies support retention of separate taxa. Forms a species group with Rufous-chested Swallow (Cecropis semirufa). Subspecies saturatior intergrades with nominate in Sudan and with monteiri in south-eastern Kenya (area between Nairobi and Mombasa).

The following 3 subspecies are recognised:

  • senegalensis (Linnaeus, 1766)   -  Extreme southern Mauritania and Senegambia east to northern Ghana, northern Nigeria, northern Cameroon, southern Chad and south-western Sudan.
  • saturatior (Bannerman, 1923)   -  Southern Ghana east to southern Cameroon, southern Sudan and Ethiopia and south to PR Congo, northern DRCongo, Burundi and northern and southern Kenya.
  • monteiri (Hartlaub, 1862)   -  Angola and southern DRCongo east to southern Kenya, south to northern Namibia, northern Botswana, Zimbabwe, Mozambique and extreme north-eastern South Africa.



References
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Files:
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