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Giovanni Cumbo

  • Biodiversity Journal, 15 (2): 265-269 - MONOGRAPH

    Salvatore Surdo, Andrea Cusmano, Giovanni Cumbo, Nino Di Lucia, Manuel Andrea Zafarana & Paolo Galasso
    Current status and expansion of Western Red-rumped Swallow Cecropis daurica rufula (Temminck, 1835) (Aves Hirundinidae) in Sicily
    https://doi.org/10.31396/Biodiv.Jour.2024.15.2.265.269

    ABSTRACT
    The recent paper published by Corso et al. (2021) about the status of the Western Redrumped Swallow, Cecropis daurica rufula (Temminck, 1835) (Aves Hirundinidae), in Sicily was mainly focused on updating the distribution of breeding pairs in the south-eastern part of the region; hence the decision to provide a more complete and up-to-date regional picture of the current status of this species collecting unpublished data and investigating the most suitable locations in the period 2011–2022. This survey highlights as, also in western and central Sicily, the species has been showing an increase in number of breeding pairs, found in 18 new UTM squares (11 of these for which the breeding was ascertained and 7 for which was very probable) in comparison to the last updated data. A new map of the distribution of the Western Red-rumped Swallow in Sicily is therefore presented here.