Wire-tailed Swallows are fast flyers and they generally feed on insects, especially flies, while airborne.

The Wire-tailed Swallow (Hirundo smithii) is a small passerine bird in the swallow family.

Wire-tailed Swallow - Species text in The Atlas of Southern African Birds.

In Europe and north Africa, this usually means the Red-rumped Swallow, but south of the Sahara other species like Wire-tailed Swallow are also parasitised.

Wire-tailed Swallow breeds in Africa south of the Sahara and in tropical southern Asia from the Indian subcontinent east to southeast Asia.

Notable avifauna include Laos's last known nesting Little Terns, River Lapwings, River Terns, Small Pratincoles, Wire-tailed Swallows.

Notable avifauna include Great Thick-knees Esacus recurvirostris, Jerdon's Bushchat Saxicola jerdoni, River Lapwing Vanellus duvaucelii, Small Pratincole Glareola lactea, and Wire-tailed Swallow Hirundo smithii.

Notable avifauna is the last known nesting Little Terns Sternula albifrons; there are also Small Pratincoles Glareola lactea, River Lapwings Vanellus duvaucelii, Wire-tailed Swallows Hirundo smithii, and River Terns Sterna aurantia.