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Psalidoprocne albiceps
(White-headed saw-wing)
Witkopsaagvlerkswael, Witkop-saagvlerkswael [Afrikaans];
Witkopkamzwaluw [Dutch]; Hirondelle à tête blanche [French];
Weißkopf-sägeflügelschwalbe [German]; Andorinha-de-cabeça-branca
[Portuguese]
Life
> Eukaryotes >
Opisthokonta
> Metazoa (animals) >
Bilateria >
Deuterostomia > Chordata >
Craniata > Vertebrata (vertebrates) > Gnathostomata (jawed
vertebrates) > Teleostomi (teleost fish) > Osteichthyes (bony fish) > Class:
Sarcopterygii (lobe-finned
fish) > Stegocephalia (terrestrial
vertebrates) > Tetrapoda
(four-legged vertebrates) > Reptiliomorpha > Amniota >
Reptilia (reptiles) >
Romeriida > Diapsida > Archosauromorpha > Archosauria >
Dinosauria
(dinosaurs) > Saurischia > Theropoda (bipedal predatory dinosaurs) >
Coelurosauria > Maniraptora > Aves
(birds) >
Order: Passeriformes > Family: Hirundinidae
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White-headed saw-wing, Arabuko-Sokoke forest, Kenya. [photo
Steve Garvie
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Distribution and habitat
Vagrant to southern Africa, with 2 records from Zimbabwe
and on from eastern Limpopo Province, South Africa. Its normal distribution is
from the extreme south of Sudan through Uganda, Tanzania and eastern DRC to
northern Zambia and Malawi. In the two latter countries it usually occurs in
clearings within miombo (Brachystegia) woodland, especially near riparian
or montane forest.
References
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Hockey PAR, Dean WRJ and Ryan PG 2005. Roberts
- Birds of southern Africa, VIIth ed. The Trustees of the John Voelcker
Bird Book Fund, Cape Town.
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