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Passeriformes / Hirundinidae / Cecropis

Red-breasted Swallow

Cecropis semirufa

IUCN: Least Concern

Data Sources

AviList 2025 eBird (rucswa2) Avibase

Taxonomy data from AviList 2025.

Taxonomy

Order: Passeriformes
Family: Hirundinidae
Genus: Cecropis

Subspecies (2)

Cecropis semirufa gordoni

Senegambia eastward to southern South Sudan, Uganda, Rwanda, southwestern Kenya, and northwestern Tanzania, southward to northern Angola and central Democratic Republic of the Congo
Cecropis semirufa semirufa

Botswana to Malawi, Mozambique, and eastern Cape Province

Data Sources

AviList 2025 eBird (rucswa2) Avibase

Taxonomy data from AviList 2025.