The White-headed Saw-wing is a small, stocky swallow with a short tail. It catches insects in flight around woodland and forest edges.
Males have white heads with a dark line through the eye. Females have mostly sooty heads with white feathers showing on the crown; juveniles are uniformly sooty.
It lives mainly in forest and forest edge, including riparian woodland and wooded highland grasslands. It eats flying ants, beetles, and flies, and nests in banks of sand or soil.
IUCN Red List · Least Concern (LC) · Global