Red-throated Rock Martin

When to see the Red-throated Rock Martin

One bar for each month, and every month is filled: this bird is recorded here in all twelve. The wide bar is November, the month with the most records.

Where to see the Red-throated Rock Martin

The map shades 23 countries with regular records, and 5 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 Gabon, Burkina Faso, Equatorial Guinea, South Sudan, Chad.

About the Red-throated Rock Martin

The red-throated rock martin, also known as the red-throated crag-martin, is a small passerine bird in the swallow family, Hirundinidae. It is found over a large area of Africa from Sierra Leone eastwards to Eritrea and Ethiopia and then south across East Africa to Zimbabwe and northern Mozambique. It was formerly considered to be a subspecies of the large rock martin.

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Easily confused with

Pale Crag MartinPtyonoprogne obsoletaThe pale crag martin of the nominate subspecies P. o. obsoleta is 12–13 centimetres (4+1⁄2–5 inches) long with light brown upperparts, becoming paler on the lower back, and a short square tail that has small white patches near the tips of all but the central and outermost pairs of feathers. Dusky Crag MartinPtyonoprogne concolorThe dusky crag martin is 13 cm (5 in) long with a broad body, wings and tail. Large Rock MartinPtyonoprogne fuligulaThe large rock martin of the nominate subspecies P. f. fuligula is 12–15 cm (4.7–5.9 in) long, with earth-brown upperparts and a short square tail that has small white patches near the tips of all but the central and outermost pairs of feathers.