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Southern Rough-winged Swallow

Stelgidopteryx ruficollis · Family Hirundinidae

Stelgidopteryx ruficollis

Family Hirundinidae

Order
Passeriformes
Family
Hirundinidae
GBIF occurrence records
414,644
Countries and territories with records
31
Southern Rough-winged Swallow
Julian Londono from Manizales, Colombia · Stelgidopteryx ruficollis -Manizales, Caldas, Colombia-8 (cropped).jpg · CC BY-SA 2.0 · Julian Londono from Manizales, Colombia · CC BY-SA 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons · Recordings may be trimmed and re-encoded; photos are cropped and resized.

About this species

This species has 414,644 occurrence records from 31 countries and territories (GBIF, 21 October 2026). Most records come from Colombia (28.5%), Brazil (23.8%), Costa Rica (14%), Ecuador (9.4%) and Panama (8.7%); together they account for 84.5% of the total. In Colombia, this species accounts for 0.44% of all bird records in GBIF.

The scientific name Stelgidopteryx ruficollis combines the genus name Stelgidopteryx with the species epithet ruficollis. The Warbla app catalog lists one other species of the genus Stelgidopteryx: Stelgidopteryx serripennis.

The catalog has GBIF record counts for 83 species of the family Hirundinidae. This species ranks 15th among them; the family’s most-recorded species is Hirundo rustica. Its record count is 69.1% 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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