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Red-rumped swallow This couple came on the roof of my apartment at late evening daily. Its photo-shyness and darkness of evening creates problems in taking photographs. Cecropis daurica,Geotagged,India,Red-rumped swallow Click/tap to enlarge Species introCountry intro

Red-rumped swallow

This couple came on the roof of my apartment at late evening daily. Its photo-shyness and darkness of evening creates problems in taking photographs.

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  1. View WildFlower's profile
    WildFlower
    Lion
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    They look like red-rumped swallows (Hirundo daurica).
    http://www.birding.in/birds/Passeriformes/Hirundinidae/red-rumped_swallow.htm
    http://www.birdforum.net/opus/Red-rumped_Swallow     Posted 11 years ago
  2. View rakesh's profile
    rakesh
    Musk Oxen
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    Thanks.
    I also hope so     Posted 11 years ago

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The Red-rumped swallow

The red-rumped swallow is a small passerine bird in the swallow family. It breeds in open hilly country of temperate southern Europe and Asia from Portugal and Spain to Japan, India and tropical Africa. The Indian and African birds are resident, but European and other Asian birds are migratory. They winter in Africa or India and are vagrants to Christmas Island and northern Australia.

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Uploaded Jun 20, 2014. Captured Jun 6, 2013 17:46 in 23, Mehsana, Sun City, Nagalpur, Mahesana, Gujarat 384002, India.
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  • NIKON D3100
  • f/10.0
  • 1717986/21
  • ISO800
  • 300mm