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I hadn't seen Waxwings for years, so was thrilled to watch a 20 minute spectacle as a flock of 50 or more birds completely stripped this berry-laden bush of almost every single red fruit.
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Photo Properties
Make
Canon
Model
Canon EOS 40D
Aperture Value
f/5.7
Color Space
sRGB
Exposure Bias Value
0 EV
Exposure Program
Program
Flash
No Flash
Focal Length
700 mm
ISO
100
Metering Mode
Center Weighted Average
Shutter Speed Value
1/200 sec
Date/Time
Fri 20 May 2011 06:09:43 AM EDT
Orientation
Normal (O deg)
Resolution Unit
Inch
X Resolution
350 dots per ResolutionUnit
Y Resolution
350 dots per ResolutionUnit
Compression
Jpeg Compression
Exposure Mode
0
English Red-rumped Swallow
Scientific (Cecropis daurica rufula)
Order PASSERIFORMES
Family (Latin) Hirundinidae
Family (English) Swallows, Martins
Other name(s)
Breeding Regions PAL, OR, AF
Breeding Range Subregions widespread
Nonbreeding Range Subregions
Countries (BETA)map Afghanistan,Albania,Algeria,Armenia,Australia,Austria,Bahrain,Bangladesh,Benin,Bhutan, Bosnia and Herzegovina,Bulgaria,Burkina Faso,Burundi,Cambodia,Cameroon,Central African Republic,Chad,China,Croatia, Cyprus,Democratic Republic of Congo,Denmark,Egypt,Equatorial Guinea,Eritrea,Ethiopia,Finland,France,Gabon, Gambia,Ghana,Gibraltar,Greece,Guinea,Guinea-Bissau,Hong Kong,India - Andaman and Nicobar Islands,India - mainland,Indonesia, Iran,Iraq,Israel,Ivory Coast,Japan,Jordan,Kazakhstan,Kenya,Kuwait,Kyrgyzstan, Laos,Lebanon,Liberia,Libya,Luxembourg,Macedonia,Malawi,Malaysia,Mali,Malta, Mauritania,Moldova,Mongolia,Montenegro,Morocco,Myanmar,Nepal,Netherlands,Niger,Nigeria, North Korea,Norway,Oman,Pakistan,Palestine,Papua New Guinea,Poland,Portugal,Romania,Russia, Rwanda,Saudi Arabia,Senegal,Serbia,Sierra Leone,Singapore,Slovenia,Solomon Islands,Somalia,South Korea, South Sudan,Spain,Sri Lanka,Sudan,Switzerland,Syria,Tajikistan,Tanzania,Thailand,Togo, Tunisia,Turkey,Turkmenistan,Uganda,Ukraine,United Arab Emirates,Uzbekistan,Vietnam,Western Sahara,Yemen, Zambia,
IOC 13.1 Subspecies Group Subspecies Breeding Range
daurica ne Kazakhstan and Mongolia to sc China
japonica se Siberia, Korean Pen. and Japan to s China
nipalensis Himalayas to n Myanmar
erythropygia c India
rufula s Europe and n Africa e to Iran, Pakistan and nw India
melanocrissus Ethiopia and Eritrea
kumboensis Sierra Leone and w Cameroon
emini se Sudan, Uganda and Kenya to Malawi and n Zambia
IUCN Status Code LC (Birdlife factsheet )
Described by (Laxmann, 1769)
German Rötelschwalbe
French Hirondelle rousseline
Chinese 金腰燕
Japanese コシアカツバメ
Russian Рыжепоясничная ласточка
Spanish Golondrina dáurica
Portuguese andorinha-dáurica
Bird Data App text
Show Breeding Range Codes and IUCN Status Codes
Breeding Range Codes
AF Africa (entire continent rather than south of Sahara)
AN Antarctica
AO Atlantic Ocean
AU Australasia (Wallacea (Indonesian islands east of Wallace's line), New Guinea and its islands, Australia, New Zealand and its subantarctic islands, the Solomons, New Caledonia, and Vanuatu)
PAL Eurasia (Europe, Asia from the Middle East through central Asia north of the Himalayas, Siberia and northern China to Japan)
IO Indian Ocean
LA Latin America (Middle and South America)
MA Middle America (Mexico through Panama)
NA North America (includes the Caribbean)
NO Northern oceans
OR Oriental Region (South Asia from Pakistan to Taiwan, plus Southeast Asia, the Philippines, and Greater Sundas)
PO Pacific Ocean
SA South America
SO Southern oceans
TO Temperate oceans
TrO Tropical oceans
Worldwide Worldwide
IUCN Status Codes
EX Extinct
EW Extinct in the wild
CR Critically Endangered
EN Endangered
VU Vulnerable
NT Near Threatened
LC Least Concern
DD Data deficient
NE Not evaluated
PE Probably extinct (informal)
PEW Probably extinct in the wild (informal)