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Wire-tailed Swallows are small member of the swallow family. Their most prominent feature are long, filamentary streamers on the outside of the tail, which acocunt for a significant fraction of their total length. The frons and crown are rust-red; the lores and ear coverts are brown. The front from chin to undertail coverts is white, while the back and wings are glossy blue-black. The irises are dark. The short, straight bill is grey; the legs and feet are also grey.

The overall distribution of this species can be assessed, and specific locations where birds have been spotted can be found, based on individual sighting reports submitted by birdwatchers to ebird.org .

The global distribution of the Wire-tailed Swallow is available HERE .

There are two races of Wire-tailed Swallows. Nominate race "smithii" populates parts of the African continent to the South of the Sahara desert, with the exceptions of the Congo basin and of South Africa, and race "filifera" is found in southern and south-eastern Asia, with reports from southern Iran in the West to Vietnam in the East.

Wire-tailed Swallows, nominate race "smithii", are vagrants or occasional visitors in Oman.

Race "smithii"