The red-rumped swallow is a small passerine bird in the swallow family. It breeds in open hilly country of temperate southern Europe and Asia from Portugal and Spain to Japan, India, Sri Lanka and tropical Africa. The Indian and African birds are resident, but European and other Asian birds are migratory. They winter in Africa or India and are vagrants to Christmas Island and northern Australia. Source: Wikipedia
Citation:
(Laxmann, E 1769)
Reference:
Mantissa Plant. Altera
Protonym:
Hirundo daurica
Type locality:
Siberia; Mt. Schlangen near Zmeinogorsk, Russia (see Dickinson & Ericson 2002, SNAB 32)
Link:
https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/46781513
Avibase ID:
ECD0580B310C7833
Avibase ID:
avibase-ECD0580B
Short link:
https://avibase.ca/ECD0580B
Taxonomic Serial Number:
TSN: 916675
Geographic range:
Authorities recognizing this taxonomic concept:
Avibase taxonomic concepts (current): Lesser Striated, Striated, West African or Rufous-bellied Swallow ( Cecropis [daurica, rufula, melanocrissus or badia]) |
Avibase taxonomic concepts v. 2023 (May 2023): Lesser Striated, Striated, West African or Rufous-bellied Swallow ( Cecropis [daurica, domicella, striolata or badia]) |
Avibase taxonomic concepts v. 2024 (Oct 2024): Lesser Striated, Striated, West African or Rufous-bellied Swallow ( Cecropis [daurica, rufula, melanocrissus, domicella or badia]) |
Avibase taxonomic concepts v. 05 (Jan 2017): Lesser Striated, Striated, West African or Rufous-bellied Swallow ( Cecropis [daurica, domicella, striolata or badia]) |
Avibase taxonomic concepts v. 06 (Feb 2018): Lesser Striated, Striated, West African or Rufous-bellied Swallow ( Cecropis [daurica, domicella, striolata or badia]) |
Avibase taxonomic concepts v. 07 (Feb 2020): Lesser Striated, Striated, West African or Rufous-bellied Swallow ( Cecropis [daurica, domicella, striolata or badia]) |
Avibase taxonomic concepts v. 08 (Feb 2021): Lesser Striated, Striated, West African or Rufous-bellied Swallow ( Cecropis [daurica, domicella, striolata or badia]) |
Birdlife checklist version 09 (Dec 2016): Red-rumped Swallow ( Cecropis daurica) [version 1] |
Birdlife checklist version 09.1 (Jun 2017): Red-rumped Swallow ( Cecropis daurica) [version 1] |
HBW and BirdLife Taxonomic Checklist v2 (Dec 2017): Red-rumped Swallow ( Cecropis daurica) [version 1] |
HBW and BirdLife Taxonomic Checklist v3 (Nov 2018): Red-rumped Swallow ( Cecropis daurica) [version 1] |
HBW and BirdLife Taxonomic Checklist v4 (Dec 2019): Red-rumped Swallow ( Cecropis daurica) [version 1] |
HBW and BirdLife Taxonomic Checklist v5 (Dec 2020): Red-rumped Swallow ( Cecropis daurica) [version 1] |
HBW and BirdLife Taxonomic Checklist v6 (Dec 2021): Red-rumped Swallow ( Cecropis daurica) [version 1] |
HBW and BirdLife Taxonomic Checklist v6b (Jul 2022): Red-rumped Swallow ( Cecropis daurica) [version 1] |
HBW and BirdLife Taxonomic Checklist v7 (Dec 2022): Red-rumped Swallow ( Cecropis daurica) [version 1] |
HBW and BirdLife Taxonomic Checklist v8 (Dec 2023): Red-rumped Swallow ( Cecropis daurica) [version 1] |
HBW and BirdLife Taxonomic Checklist v9 (Oct 2024): Red-rumped Swallow ( Cecropis daurica) [version 1] |
Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive (03/07/2017): Red-rumped Swallow ( Cecropis daurica) [version 1] |
Handbook of the Birds of the World and Birdlife (Dec 2017): Red-rumped Swallow ( Cecropis daurica) [version 1] |
Handbook of the Birds of the World and Birdlife (Dec 2018): Red-rumped Swallow ( Cecropis daurica) [version 1] |
Taxonomic status:
Species status: species group (sometimes a species)
This taxon is a subspecies of
Cecropis [daurica, rufula, melanocrissus, badia or hyperythra]
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