Eurasian hobby
Some falcons have the speed and agility to catch swallows and martins in flight, and rock martins may be hunted by species such as the peregrine falcon, Taita falcon, African hobby and wintering Eurasian hobby. Rock martins often share their nesting sites with little swifts, which sometimes forcibly take over the martin's nests. In 1975, one of the first findings of the tick "Argas (A.) africolumbae" was in a nest of "Ptyonoprogne f. fusciventris" in Kenya, at that time the martin was described under its synonym "Ptyonoprogne fuligula rufigula" (Fischer &amp; Reichenow).