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Lower Sabie, Kruger National Park, South Africa.

Alternative name: Red-breasted Swallow

Cecropis semirufa

Hirundo semirufa

[edit] Identification

24cm. Blue upperparts, reddish collar, rump, face and underparts, white underwings with dark flight feathers, forked tail, and slightly longer in the male. Juveniles are duller and browner.

[edit] Distribution

Africa.

[edit] Taxonomy

Previously included in genus Hirundo

[edit] Habitat

Dry open country.

[edit] Behaviour

It builds a closed mud nest with a tubular entrance in a cavity or under bridges and similar structures. 3 eggs are usually laid.

The diet includes insects which are caught on the wing.

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