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Eastern Red-rumped Swallow

Cecropis daurica · Family Hirundinidae

Cecropis daurica

Family Hirundinidae

Order
Passeriformes
Family
Hirundinidae
GBIF occurrence records
498,754
Countries and territories with records
126
Eastern Red-rumped Swallow
yvesbas · Cecropis daurica, Fufeng County, Baoji, Shaanxi, China 1.jpg · CC BY 4.0 · yvesbas · CC BY 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons · Recordings may be trimmed and re-encoded; photos are cropped and resized.
Play song · Qin Huang · Cecropis_daurica_-_Red-rumped_Swallow_XC307163.mp3 · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Qin Huang · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons · Recordings may be trimmed and re-encoded; photos are cropped and resized.

About this species

This species has 498,754 occurrence records from 126 countries and territories (GBIF, 21 October 2026). Most records come from India (51.1%), Taiwan (25.9%), China (4.7%), Thailand (4%) and Spain (2.9%); together they account for 88.6% of the total. In India, this species accounts for 0.41% of all bird records in GBIF.

The scientific name Cecropis daurica combines the genus name Cecropis with the species epithet daurica. The Warbla app catalog lists 7 species of the genus Cecropis; apart from this one, those with the most GBIF records are Cecropis cucullata, Cecropis abyssinica and Cecropis semirufa.

The catalog has GBIF record counts for 83 species of the family Hirundinidae. This species ranks 11th among them; the family’s most-recorded species is Hirundo rustica. Its record count is 83.1% of the family average (600,011). The family Hirundinidae belongs to the order Passeriformes, which has 6,193 species in the Warbla app catalog.

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