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What the Eastern Red-rumped Swallow sounds like
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The eastern red-rumped swallow is 19 cm long with a deeply forked tail. It has blue upperparts other than a reddish collar (sometimes absent) and streaked chestnut rump. The face and underparts are white with heavy dark streaking. The wings are brown. The sexes are alike but juveniles are duller and browner, with a paler rump and shorter outer tail feathers. The population in mainland India, C. d. erythropygia, has the rump patch uniform dark chestnut without any dark shaft-streaks. The tail fork is shallow and the white patch on the inner web of the outer-tail feathers is indistinct. C. d.
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When to see the Eastern Red-rumped Swallow
One bar for each month, and every month is filled: this bird is recorded here in all twelve. The wide bar is January, the month with the most records.
Where to see the Eastern Red-rumped Swallow
The map shades 58 countries with regular records, and 13 more in a lighter tone where the bird turns up only as a stray. Everything unshaded has no records. Countries are listed below the map.
Recorded as a rare visitor in Belgium, Norway, Sweden, Germany, United Kingdom, Finland, Serbia, Oman, Austria, Tunisia, Afghanistan, Ireland, Palau.
About the Eastern Red-rumped Swallow
The eastern red-rumped swallow is a small passerine bird in the swallow family Hirundinidae. It is found in open, often hilly, areas with clearings and cultivation across Southeast Asia to north-eastern India and Taiwan.
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Easily confused with
Greater Striped SwallowCecropis cucullataThe greater striped swallow is 18–20 cm (7.1–7.9 in) long.
Lesser Striped SwallowCecropis abyssinicaThe lesser striped swallow is 15–10 cm long.
Red-breasted SwallowCecropis semirufaThe red-breasted swallow is similar to the mosque swallow but is slightly smaller and has longer tail streamers, both species having a blue crown and mantle contrasting with a rufous rump and underparts, In the red-breasted swallow the dark crown extends below the eye and there is no white on the underwing.
Side by side: Eastern Red-rumped Swallow vs Greater Striped Swallow · Eastern Red-rumped Swallow vs Lesser Striped Swallow · Eastern Red-rumped Swallow vs Red-breasted Swallow
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