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User Albums Favorites www.BirdPhotos.com Song Birds Swallows, Martins Lesser Striped Swallow Lesser Striped Swallow (Cecropis abyssinica)   Range: AF (range map) info Photo by Graham Searll    - Kruger National Park South Africa  Sizes: 800x567 1152x817 1444x1024 histogram Full size: 1444x1024 next (Lesser Striped Swallow) last first previous  (Grey-rumped Swallow) Copyright and usage info: © All Rights Reserved. Photo Properties summary  details Make NIKON CORPORATION Model NIKON D2Xs Aperture Value f/5.6 Color Space sRGB Exposure Bias Value -0.67 EV Exposure Program Manual Flash No Flash Focal Length 420 mm ISO 200 Metering Mode Center Weighted Average Shutter Speed Value 1/250 sec Date/Time Sat 29 Sep 2007 11:17:45 AM EDT Custom Fields Defined: DKZ00021 Additional Information 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) next (Lesser Striped Swallow) last first previous  (Grey-rumped Swallow)