Red-breasted Swallow / Cecropis semirufa
Red-breasted Swallow bird information | Values |
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Conservation status | LC - Least concern |
Synonyms | Rufous-breasted Swallow, Rufous-chested Swallow, Redbreasted Swallow, Rufous chested Swallow |
Old latin name for bird | Hirundo semirufa, Cercropis semirufa, Hirundo semifura |
Order | Perching birds / Passeriformes |
Family | Swallows, Martins / Hirundinidae |
Genus | Cecropis |
Breeding region | Africa |
Breeding subregion | widespread |
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Related species

Rufous-bellied Swallow

Mosque Swallow

Red-rumped Swallow

Striated Swallow

Lesser Striped Swallow

Sri Lanka Swallow

West African Swallow

Greater Striped Swallow
Where to see Red-breasted Swallow
- Angola
- Benin
- Botswana
- Burkina Faso
- Burundi
- Cameroon
- Central African Republic
- Chad
- Congo
- Congo (the Democratic Republic of the)
- Côte d'Ivoire
- Denmark
- Equatorial Guinea
- Eswatini
- Gabon
- Gambia
- Ghana
- Guinea
- Guinea-Bissau
- Kenya
- Lesotho
- Liberia
- Malawi
- Mali
- Mozambique
- Namibia
- Niger
- Nigeria
- Rwanda
- Senegal
- Sierra Leone
- South Africa
- South Sudan
- Sudan
- Tanzania
- Togo
- Uganda
- Zambia
- Zimbabwe
Red-breasted Swallow subspecies (2)
Subspecies | Breeding subregion | Nonbreeding subregion | Extinct |
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Cecropis semirufa gordoni | Senegal and Gambia to Sudan and s to n Angola, c DRCongo and n Tanzania | - | No |
Cecropis semirufa semirufa | s, e Angola to Malawi and ne South Africa | - | No |
Translation
Language | Translation |
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Afrikaans | Rooiborsswael |
Azerbaijani | kürəndöş qaranquş |
Catalan | oreneta pit-roja |
Chinese | 褐胸燕 |
Chinese (Traditional) | 褐胸燕 |
Croatian | crno-riđa lastavica |
Czech | vlaštovka rezavobřichá, Vlaštovka rezavobrichá |
Danish | Rødbrystet Svale |
Dutch | Roodborstzwaluw |
Esperanto | Ruĝbrusta hirundo, Rufbrusta hirundo |
Estonian | välja-roostepääsuke |
Finnish | Punarintapäasky, punarintapääsky |
French | Hirondelle à ventre roux, Petite Hirondelle à ventre roux |
Frisian | Readboarstswel |
Galician | Andoriña de peito rubio |
German | Rotbauchschwalbe, Rostbrust-Rötelschwalbe, Rotbrustschwalbe |
Hungarian | kucsmás fecske |
Icelandic | Ryðsvala |
Irish | Fáinleog bhroinnrua |
Italian | Rondine pettorosso, Rondine pettorossiccio |
Japanese | アカハラコシアカツバメ |
Latvian | Sarkankrūšu bezdelīga |
Lithuanian | rusvakrūtė šelmeninė kregždė |
Norwegian | rustsvale, Rustsvale |
Norwegian Nynorsk | Rustsvale |
Polish | jaskólka rdzawobrzucha, jaskółka rdzawobrzucha |
Portuguese | andorinha-de-peito-ruivo |
Russian | Рыжегрудая ласточка, Рыжегрудая (настоящая) ласточка |
Serbian | Afrička crvenogruda lasta |
Shona | Nyenganyenga |
Slovak | lastovička červenobruchá |
Spanish | Golondrina de Frente Rojo, Golondrina pechirrufa, Golondrina pechirrufo |
Swahili | Mbayuwayu Kidari-chekundu |
Swedish | savannsvala |
Tsonga | Nyengha leyi kulu |
Tswana | Pêolwane |
Turkish | Kızıl Göğüslü Kırlangıç |
Ukrainian | ластівка рудочерева |
Welsh | Gwennol frongoch |