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Revision as of 17:09, 14 September 2017
- Ptyonoprogne fuligula
Hirundo fuligula
Identification
12-15cm. Earth-brown plumage, paler on the throat, breast and underwing coverts.
Distribution
Taxonomy
Previously in genus Hirundo.
Thirteen subspecies are recognized[1]:
- P. f. presaharica
- S Morocco, Algeria (except s) and n Mauritania
- P. f. spatzi
- S Algeria, sw Libya and n Chad
- P. f. buchanani
- S-c Sahara (Aïr Massif of n Niger)
- P. f. obsoleta
- Egypt to Arabia and Iran
- P. f. perpallida
- S Iraq and ne Saudi Arabia
- P. f. pallida
- E Iran, s Afghanistan and Pakistan
- P. f. arabica
- NE Chad, n Sudan, sw Arabia, Eritrea, n Somalia and Socotra I.
- P. f. pusilla
- S Mali to Eritrea and Ethiopia
- P. f. bansoensis
- Sierra Leone to Nigeria and Cameroon
- P. f. fusciventris
- Central and southern Chad, Central African Republic, western Sudan, South Sudan, and southwestern Ethiopia south through East Africa to northern Mozambique
- P. f. anderssoni
- N and sw Angola and n and c Namibia
- P. f. fuligula
- S Namibia, Botswana and w South Africa
- P. f. pretoriae
- SW Zimbabwe and s Mozambique to e South Africa
Habitat
Rocky areas.
Behaviour
Its nest is a deep bowl on a horizontal surface or a neat quarter-sphere against a rock face or wall. It is constructed with mud pellets and lined with grass or feathers. The nest may be built on natural sites under cliff overhangs or on man-made structures such as buildings, dam walls, culverts and bridges. The nest may be reused for subsequent broods or in later years.
2-3 eggs, white with brown and grey blotches, are incubated by the female alone for 16-19 days to hatching. Both parents then feed the chicks. Fledging takes another 22-24 days, but the young birds will return to the nest to roost for a few days after the first flight.
Its diet includes insects.
References
- Clements, J. F., T. S. Schulenberg, M. J. Iliff, D. Roberson, T. A. Fredericks, B. L. Sullivan, and C. L. Wood. 2017. The eBird/Clements checklist of birds of the world: v2017, with updates to August 2017. Downloaded from http://www.birds.cornell.edu/clementschecklist/download/
