Black Saw-wing

Taxonomy

Order

Passeriformes

Family

Hirundinidae

Genus

Psalidoprocne

eBird Code

blksaw1

Subspecies (12)

• Psalidoprocne pristoptera antinorii

  highlands of northeastern, southern, and east-central Ethiopia (southward to Lake Turkana)

• Psalidoprocne pristoptera blanfordi

  highlands of west-central Ethiopia

• Psalidoprocne pristoptera chalybea

  far southeastern Nigeria and Cameroon to Central African Republic, northwestern South Sudan, and northeastern Democratic Republic of the Congo

• Psalidoprocne pristoptera holomelas

  southern Zimbabwe and southern Mozambique southward through eastern South Africa to the Cape region; some northward migration

• Psalidoprocne pristoptera mangbettorum

  far northeastern Democratic Republic of the Congo and southern South Sudan

• Psalidoprocne pristoptera massaica

  mountains of western and central Kenya to Uluguru and Usambara mountains (Tanzania)

• Psalidoprocne pristoptera oleaginea

  eastern South Sudan and southwestern Ethiopia

• Psalidoprocne pristoptera orientalis

  southeastern Tanzania to northeastern Zambia, Zimbabwe, Malawi, and Mozambique

• Psalidoprocne pristoptera petiti

  southeastern Nigeria and southwestern Cameroon to Cabinda and lower Congo River

• Psalidoprocne pristoptera pristoptera

  highlands of Eritrea to northern Ethiopia and Somalia

• Psalidoprocne pristoptera reichenowi

  southwestern Gabon to central Angola, southern Democratic Republic of the Congo, and western Zambia

• Psalidoprocne pristoptera ruwenzori

  Rwenzori Mountains (northeastern Democratic Republic of the Congo and southwestern Uganda)