European Red-rumped Swallow
Cecropis rufula
- Class
- Bird
- Rarity
- Common
- Observations
- 3,506
- Most observed in
- 🇪🇸 Spain
Description
The European red-rumped swallow (Cecropis rufula) is a small passerine bird in the swallow family Hirundinidae. Historically, it was usually treated in a broad concept of the genus Hirundo, but is now treated in the genus Cecropis. It was formerly considered to be a subspecies of the eastern red-rumped swallow (Cecropis daurica), united, together with the African red-rumped swallow (C. melanocrissus, syn. C. domicella), under the common name of red-rumped swallow.
Summary adapted from the Wikipedia article “European red-rumped swallow”.