Search :   Actual Scientific name : French name English name Delichon urbicum Hirondelle de fenêtre  Common House Martin  Hirundo abyssinica unitatis Hirondelle à gorge striée  Lesser Striped Swallow  Hirundo albigularis ambigua Hirondelle à gorge blanche  White-throated Swallow  Hirundo angolensis Hirondelle d'Angola  Angola Swallow  Hirundo atrocaerulea Hirondelle bleue  Blue Swallow  Hirundo cucullata Hirondelle d'Afrique  Greater Striped Swallow  Hirundo daurica emini Hirondelle rousseline  Red-rumped Swallow  Hirundo dimidiata marwitzi Hirondelle à gorge perlée  Pearl-breasted Swallow  Hirundo fuligula rufigula Hirondelle de rochers à gorge rousse  Rock Martin  Hirundo nigrita Hirondelle noire  White-throated Blue Swallow  Hirundo nigrorufa Hirondelle rousse et noire  Black-and-rufous Swallow  Hirundo rufigula Hirondelle de rochers à gorge fauve  Red-throated Cliff Swallow  Hirundo rustica rustica Hirondelle de cheminée  Barn Swallow  Hirundo semirufa semirufa Hirondelle à ventre roux  Red-breasted Swallow  Hirundo senegalensis monteiri Hirondelle des mosquées  Mosque Swallow  Hirundo smithii smithii Hirondelle à longs brins d'Afrique  Wire-tailed Swallow  Psalidoprocne albiceps suffusa Hirondelle hérissée à tête blanche  White-headed Saw-wing  Psalidoprocne pristoptera ruwenzorii Hirondelle hérissée bleue  Black Saw-wing  Pseudohirundo griseopyga griseopyga Hirondelle à croupion gris  Grey-rumped Swallow  Riparia cincta (suahelica & cincta) Hirondelle de rivage à front blanc  Banded Martin  Riparia paludicola paludicola Hirondelle de rivage paludicole  Brown-throated Sand Martin  Riparia riparia riparia Hirondelle de rivage d'Europe  Common Sand Martin  Warning : This database was established according to official pieces of work and with the help of famous scientists. However, there might be some errors. The vernacular names were collected in the field and in the colonial literature from the first part of the 20th century. The monks who established the first dictionaries were not necessarily informed naturalists. Therefore, errors must have been committed. We invite everyone who could help us to improve this working tool to contact us in order to correct us and share her/his knowledge with us. +  You are in : ROOT > Vertebrata (Vertebrates) > Aves (Birds) > Passeriformes > Hirundinidae (swallows) Design by McArnolds Group SA | Development and code by AMESIS SPRL