Birds of the World

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Genus: Cecropis (9 species)


Lesser Striped Swallow (Cecropis abyssinica) Range: AF: widespread South Africa
Photograph by Graham Searll © All Rights Reserved.


Lesser Striped Swallow (Cecropis abyssinica) Range: AF: widespread Kruger National Park, South Africa
Photograph by Tom Friedel © All Rights Reserved.

Compare to Greater Striped Swallow. The Lesser Striped Swallow has a red cheek/ear and a heavily striped throat.


Rufous-bellied Swallow (Cecropis badia) Range: OR: Malay Pen. Fraser's Hill, Pahang, Malaysia
Photograph by Daniel Koh (Singapore) © All Rights Reserved.


Greater Striped Swallow (Cecropis cucullata) Range: AF: Angola and Namibia to Zimbabwe and s to s South Africa Marievale Nature Reserve, South Africa
Photograph by Tom Friedel © All Rights Reserved.

Compare to Lesser Striped Swallow.
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Eastern Red-rumped Swallow (Cecropis daurica) Range: PAL, OR: widespread

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Sri Lanka Swallow (Cecropis hyperythra) Range: OR: Sri Lanka


African Red-rumped Swallow (Cecropis melanocrissus kumboensis) Range: AF: w Africa from Senegambia to w Cameroon and e Sudan. e Africa from Ethiopia and Eritrea to Malawi and n Zambia Poli, Cameroon
Photograph by Nigel Voaden © All Rights Reserved.


European Red-rumped Swallow (Cecropis rufula) Range: PAL: s Europe and n Africa e to Iran, Pakistan and nw India Monfragüe, Spain
Photograph by Tom Friedel © All Rights Reserved.


European Red-rumped Swallow (Cecropis rufula) Range: PAL: s Europe and n Africa e to Iran, Pakistan and nw India Bulgaria
Photograph by Steve Riall © All Rights Reserved.


Red-breasted Swallow (Cecropis semirufa semirufa) Range: AF: widespread Kruger National Park, South Africa
Photograph by Bernie DUPONT Copyright and usage info This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 Unported. In short: you are free to share and make derivative works of the file for non-commercial purposes under the conditions that you appropriately attribute it, and that you distribute it only under a license identical to this one.


Mosque Swallow (Cecropis senegalensis) Range: AF: widespread Maasai Mara, Kenya
Photograph by Rainbirder (Steve Garvie) Copyright and usage info This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported. In short: you are free to share and make derivative works of the file under the conditions that you appropriately attribute it, and that you distribute it only under a license identical to this one.

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