Wire-tailed Swallow
Hirundo smithii
Kruger National Park, iSimangaliso Wetland Park and the Serengeti are among the 16 atlas places where the Wire-tailed Swallow is recorded. Its records concentrate in India, South Africa, Zimbabwe, Zambia and Kenya. The atlas holds about 148,000 records of the bird from 18 countries, and the map shows where these records gather.
Because this swallow is recorded in both hemispheres, the months it is seen differ by region. Each place page in the atlas shows the recorded months for that area.
- Records
- 148,223
- Countries
- 18
- Atlas places
- 16
- Kruger National Park· South Africa
- iSimangaliso Wetland Park· South Africa
- Serengeti National Park· Tanzania
- Maasai Mara National Reserve· Kenya
- Bwabwata National Park· Namibia
- Chobe National Park· Botswana
- Ngorongoro Conservation Area· Tanzania
- Okavango Delta· Botswana
- Aberdare National Park· Kenya
- Amboseli National Park· Kenya
- Arusha National Park· Tanzania
- Hell's Gate National Park· Kenya
- Hluhluwe-iMfolozi Park· South Africa
- Lake Nakuru National Park· Kenya
- Nairobi National Park· Kenya
- Samburu National Reserve· Kenya
These are open occurrence records, so they show where people looked for and recorded the Wire-tailed Swallow as much as where it lives. The atlas keeps a species' 200 best-recorded grid cells, so the map shows where records concentrate rather than its whole range. Cells are up to 25 km across, and every location is generalised to its cell.
Generalised encounter areas, not exact locations. Each shape is a grid cell coloured by how likely the species is there.
- Very likelyIndia25 km zone · high confidence · 100343 records · updated 40 days ago
- Very likelySouth Africa25 km zone · high confidence · 23400 records · updated 40 days ago
- Very likelyKenya25 km zone · high confidence · 5932 records · updated 40 days ago
- Very likelyZimbabwe25 km zone · high confidence · 3794 records · updated 40 days ago
- Very likelyZambia25 km zone · high confidence · 3113 records · updated 40 days ago
- Very likelyNamibia25 km zone · high confidence · 2466 records · updated 40 days ago
- Very likelyTanzania25 km zone · high confidence · 2069 records · updated 40 days ago
- Very likelyUganda25 km zone · high confidence · 1402 records · updated 40 days ago
- Very likelyGambia25 km zone · high confidence · 1228 records · updated 40 days ago
- Very likelyBotswana25 km zone · high confidence · 1191 records · updated 40 days ago
Conservation status not assessed here yet, so every location is generalised to its grid cell.
