Barn swallow
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The barn swallow is the most widespread species of swallow in the world, occurring on all continents, with vagrants reported even in Antarctica. It is a distinctive passerine bird with blue upperparts
Rauchschwalbe Hirundo rustica
Holotype of Chelidon rustica transitiva Hartert (NML-VZ T2057) held at World Museum, National Museums Liverpool
H. r. erythrogaster resting on a twig in Washington State, US
H. r. rustica juveniles
Welcome swallow
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The welcome swallow is a small passerine bird in the swallow family Hirundinidae that is native to Australia and nearby islands. It has self-introduced into New Zealand in the middle of the twentieth
Barn swallow
…distinctive combination of a red face and blue breast band renders the adult barn swallow easy to distinguish from the African Hirundo species and from the welcome swallow (Hirundo neoxena) with which its range overlaps in Australasia. In Africa the short tail streamers of the juvenile barn swallow invite confusion with…
Hirundo neoxena risdon
Copulating welcome swallows
Chicks the day after fledging
Parents (left) and three chicks