Red-chested Swallow

When to see the Red-chested Swallow

One bar for each month. Filled bars are the 9 months with records; pale bars are months with none. The wide bar is January, the month with the most records.

Where to see the Red-chested Swallow

The map shades 19 countries with regular records, and 1 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 Niger.

About the Red-chested Swallow

The red-chested swallow 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.

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Easily confused with

Hill SwallowHirundo domicolaThis species is a small swallow at 13 cm (5.1 in). White-bibbed SwallowHirundo nigritaThe white-bibbed swallow, also known as the white-throated blue swallow, is a species of bird in the family Hirundinidae. Angola SwallowHirundo angolensisThey measure 15 cm and weigh 16 to 19 g.