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title: "European Red-rumped Swallow"
description: "Cecropis rufula — Uccelli. The European red-rumped swallow (Cecropis rufula) is a small passerine bird in the swallow family Hirundinidae."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/it/animal/european-red-rumped-swallow
last_updated: 2026-09-20
---

# European Red-rumped Swallow

> Cecropis rufula — Uccelli. The European red-rumped swallow (Cecropis rufula) is a small passerine bird in the swallow family Hirundinidae.

- Scientific name: *Cecropis rufula*
- Category: `birds` (Uccelli)
- Habitats: `urban` (Città e giardini)
- iNaturalist observations: 6342
- Wikidata: [Q137261195](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q137261195)
- iNaturalist taxon: [1584768](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/1584768)

## Names

- en: European Red-rumped Swallow
- de: Rötelschwalbe
- es: Golondrina dáurica occidental
- fr: Hirondelle rousseline
- nl: Roodstuitzwaluw

## Countries with the most observations

ES (1713), PT (1296), GR (618), TR (287), IL (218), AL (200), FR (191), DZ (163), BG (137), IT (82), ME (72), MA (59)

## Summary

The European red-rumped swallow (Cecropis rufula) is a small passerine bird in the swallow family Hirundinidae. Historically, it was usually treated in a broad concept of the genus Hirundo, but is now treated in the genus Cecropis. It was formerly considered to be a subspecies of the eastern red-rumped swallow (Cecropis daurica), united, together with the African red-rumped swallow (C. melanocrissus, syn. C. domicella), under the common name of red-rumped swallow.

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

## Photo

![European Red-rumped Swallow](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/european-red-rumped-swallow/medium.jpg)

Photo: José Antonio León Mangado · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/303678633

## Machine access

`GET https://animalchecklist.com/api/v1/animals/european-red-rumped-swallow?lang=it` — see [openapi.json](https://animalchecklist.com/openapi.json).