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The wire-tailed swallow (Hirundo smithii) is named for the very long filamentous outermost tail feathers, which trail behind like two wires. The species name smithii commemorates Christen Smith, a Norwegian botanist and geologist, who was a member of the expedition that discovered this species. Wire-tailed Swallows occur in two distinct populations: The African race is widespread south of the Sahara, except for their range extending further along the Nile, and they are not found in the western equatorial lowland forests. In southern Asia, they are found from Tadzhikistan, Afghanistan and northern Pakistan through India to Burma as well as northwestern and northeastern Thailand, Laos and central Vietnam.
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