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NIKON CORPORATION
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NIKON D2Xs
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Manual
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Defined: DKZ00021
English Lesser Striped Swallow
Scientific (Cecropis abyssinica)
Order PASSERIFORMES
Family (Latin) Hirundinidae
Family (English) Swallows, Martins
Other name(s) Hirondelle à gorge striée, Lesser Striped-swallow, Lesser Striped-Swallow
Breeding Regions AF
Breeding Range Subregions widespread
Nonbreeding Range Subregions
Countries (BETA)map Angola,Benin,Botswana,Burkina Faso,Burundi,Cameroon,Central African Republic,Chad,Congo,Democratic Republic of Congo, Equatorial Guinea,Eritrea,Ethiopia,Gabon,Gambia,Ghana,Guinea,Guinea-Bissau,Ivory Coast,Kenya, Lesotho,Liberia,Malawi,Mali,Mozambique,Namibia,Niger,Nigeria,Rwanda,Senegal, Sierra Leone,Somalia,South Africa,South Sudan,Sudan,Swaziland,Tanzania,Togo,Uganda,Zambia, Zimbabwe,
IOC 13.1 Subspecies Group Subspecies Breeding Range
puella Senegal and Gambia to n Cameroon
maxima se Nigeria to sw Central African Republic
bannermani ne Central African Republic and sw Sudan
abyssinica e Sudan to Somalia
unitatis Equatorial Guinea and Gabon to s Somalia and s to Angola, Botswana and e South Africa
ampliformis s Angola and n Namibia to w Zambia and nw Zimbabwe
IUCN Status Code LC (Birdlife factsheet )
Described by (Guérin-Méneville, 1843)
German Zwergrötelschwalbe
French Hirondelle striée
Chinese 小纹燕
Japanese コズアカコシアカツバメ
Russian Пятнистогрудая (настоящая) ласточка
Spanish Golondrina abisinia
Portuguese andorinha-estriada-pequena
Bird Data App text Compare to [Greater Striped Swallow]. The Lesser Striped Swallow has a red cheek/ear and a heavily striped throat.
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)
EU 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)