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Wednesday, April 12, 2017

SRI LANKA SWALLOW

Subspecies hyperythra, photographed March 2017
1059                SRI LANKA SWALLOW                    Cecropis (daurica) hyperythra

SRI LANKA                 17

Found in open areas at forest fringes, plantations, human habitation, grasslands and paddy fields. 16-17 cm. Rather uncommon breeding resident throughout Sri Lanka.

NOTE: often treated as conspecific with Red-rumped Swallow.