Swallows and Martins (Hirundinidae)
Square-tailed Saw-wing (Psalidoprocne nitens) - HBW 9, p. 643
French: Hirondelle à queue courte
German: Grünglanzschwalbe
Spanish: Golondrina Colicuadrada
Other common names: (Square-tailed) Roughwing Swallow
Taxonomy: Atticora nitens Cassin, 1857, River Muni, Gabon.
Two subspecies recognized.
Subspecies and Distribution:
- nitens (Cassin, 1857) - S Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, S Ivory Coast, S Ghana, and from SE Nigeria E to N & C DRCongo and S to Gabon, PRCongo and extreme NW Angola (Cabinda).
- centralis Neumann, 1904 - NE DRCongo.
- Least Concern Enlarge map
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Adult perched
Locality Ipassa Reserve, Makokou, Ogooué-Ivindo Province, Gabon (ssp nitens)
Nik Borrow 2 August 2009 3 years ago 2.3
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