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title: "Dusky Crag-Martin"
description: "Ptyonoprogne concolor — Uccelli. The dusky crag martin (Ptyonoprogne concolor) is a small passerine bird in the swallow family."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/it/animal/dusky-crag-martin
last_updated: 2026-09-20
---

# Dusky Crag-Martin

> Ptyonoprogne concolor — Uccelli. The dusky crag martin (Ptyonoprogne concolor) is a small passerine bird in the swallow family.

- Scientific name: *Ptyonoprogne concolor*
- Category: `birds` (Uccelli)
- Habitats: unknown
- iNaturalist observations: 1460
- Wikidata: [Q2672660](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2672660)
- iNaturalist taxon: [144790](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/144790)

## Names

- en: Dusky Crag-Martin
- de: Einfarbschwalbe
- es: Avión Oscuro
- fr: Hirondelle concolore
- nl: Indische rotszwaluw
- pl: Jaskółka brunatna

## Countries with the most observations

IN (1048), TH (32), MY (3), VN (3)

## Summary

The dusky crag martin (Ptyonoprogne concolor) is a small passerine bird in the swallow family. It is about 13 cm (5 in) long with a broad body and wings, and a short square tail that has small white patches near the tips of most of its feathers. This martin has sooty-brown upperparts and slightly paler underparts. The two subspecies are resident breeding birds in South Asia from the Indian subcontinent to southwestern China and the northern parts of Thailand, Vietnam and Laos.
This martin nests under a cliff overhang or on a man-made structure, building a neat half-cup mud nest with a soft lining. Both adults incubate…

Text: Wikipedia (en), CC BY-SA 4.0 — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dusky_crag_martin

## Photo

![Dusky Crag-Martin](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/dusky-crag-martin/medium.jpg)

Photo: Vijay Barve · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/366704

## Machine access

`GET https://animalchecklist.com/api/v1/animals/dusky-crag-martin?lang=it` — see [openapi.json](https://animalchecklist.com/openapi.json).