Hirundo lucida
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In 3 days ~40% in a week ~70%
The red-chested swallow (Hirundo lucida) is a small non-migratory passerine bird found in West Africa, the Congo Basin and Ethiopia. It has a long, deeply forked tail and curved, pointed wings. It was formerly considered a subspecies of the closely resembling barn swallow. However, the adult red-chested swallow differs in being slightly smaller than its migratory relative, in addition to having a narrower blue breast band and shorter tail streamers. Juveniles are more comparable to barn swallow chicks. Wikipedia →
| # | Park | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Niokolo-Koba National Park | 🇸🇳 Senegal |
More parks will be added in future updates.
| # | City | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Freetown | 🇸🇱 Sierra Leone | |
| 2 | Serrekunda | 🇬🇲 Gambia | |
| 3 | Dakar | 🇸🇳 Senegal | |
| 4 | Accra | 🇬🇭 Ghana |
Possible
About 20% of wildlife watchers report a Red-chested Swallow sighting in Dakar on a given day, based on 44 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data. It is the 68th most-seen of the 152 birds we can rate there. Over three days the chance rises to about 40%, and over a week to about 70%, if each day is a fresh chance.
January and June
In those months about 30% of wildlife watchers report a Red-chested Swallow in Dakar on a given day, against about 10% in February–May, July and October–November, the lowest months. Those are among Dakar's driest months, with about 15 mm of rain a month against 190 mm in August.
Between 10 am and 1 pm
Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most Red-chested Swallow sightings with a recorded time, and about 7 in 10 of them come between 6 am and 6 pm: it is a daytime animal.
Among the best
Of the 4 cities where we can rate Red-chested Swallow sightings, Dakar ranks 3rd at about 20%, level with the leaders once rounded. The best odds are in Freetown (Sierra Leone, about 20%) and Serrekunda (Gambia, about 20%).
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the Red-chested Swallow is recorded against all the birds logged in Dakar (44 verified sightings), calibrated against known sighting rates. Figures are rounded to the nearest 10% because citizen-science data supports honest approximations, not decimals, and months with records from fewer than five people show "—". How it works.
