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In the Vinony graph
Vinony's link graph records 131 inbound references to Red-chested Swallow, and connects out to Hirundinidae, Mascarene Martin and Banded martin.
Vinony files it under Birds described in 1858, Birds of Central Africa and Birds of the Horn of Africa.
Vinony links it to 27 Wikipedia language editions.
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
Sources (3)
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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.