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Wire-tailed Swallow
Hirundo smithii · Family Hirundinidae
Hirundo smithii
Family Hirundinidae
- Order
- Passeriformes
- Family
- Hirundinidae
- GBIF occurrence records
- 265,504
- Countries and territories with records
- 55
About this species
This species has 265,504 occurrence records from 55 countries and territories (GBIF, 21 October 2026). Most records come from India (61%), South Africa (13.9%), Kenya (5.9%), Zimbabwe (2.9%) and Tanzania (2.7%); together they account for 86.4% of the total. In India, this species accounts for 0.26% of all bird records in GBIF.
The scientific name Hirundo smithii combines the genus name Hirundo with the species epithet smithii. The Warbla app catalog lists 16 species of the genus Hirundo; apart from this one, those with the most GBIF records are Hirundo rustica, Hirundo neoxena and Hirundo javanica.
The catalog has GBIF record counts for 83 species of the family Hirundinidae. This species ranks 18th among them; the family’s most-recorded species is Hirundo rustica. Its record count is 44.2% of the family average (600,011). The family Hirundinidae belongs to the order Passeriformes, which has 6,193 species in the Warbla app catalog.