Blue Swallow
Hirundo atrocaerulea Sundevall, 1850
Hirundinidae — Swallows, Martins
Blue Swallow, Hirundo atrocaerulea, is a swallow in the family Hirundinidae and the order Passeriformes, breeding patchily from south-eastern DR Congo and central Tanzania to eastern South Africa. Outside the breeding season it ranges to north-eastern DR Congo, Uganda and western Kenya. It nests in montane grassland, especially in high-rainfall, rolling country, and in winter uses open grassland with bushes and trees. The nest is fixed inside ground holes, often to the roof or wall of the cavity. It was described by Sundevall in 1850.
- Order
- Passeriformes
- Family
- Hirundinidae — Swallows, Martins
- Breeding range
- Africa: patchily from se DR Congo and c Tanzania to e South Africa
- Nonbreeding range
- to ne DR Congo, Uganda and w Kenya
