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Species
Least Concernvia IUCN
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- taxon
- Parent taxon
- Hirundo
- Mass
- 1.72
- Image
- Flickr - Rainbirder - Red-chested Swallow (Hirundo lucida).jpg
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- taxon rank
- species
- IUCN conservation status
- Least Concern
- Commons category
- Hirundo lucida
- taxon name
- Hirundo lucida
- taxon common name
- andorinha-guineense
- litter size
- 3.5
- short name
- H. lucida
- taxon range
- Africa
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Encyclopedic overview
The red-chested swallow (Hirundo lucida) is a small non-migratory passerine bird found in West Africa, the Congo Basin and Ethiopia. It has a long, deeply forked tail and curved, pointed wings.
It was formerly considered a subspecies of the closely resembling barn swallow. However, the adult red-chested swallow differs in being slightly smaller than its migratory relative, in addition to having a narrower blue breast band and shorter tail streamers. Juveniles are more comparable to barn swallow chicks.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Red-chested Swallow” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.