Hirundo
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The bird genus Hirundo is a group of passerines in the family Hirundinidae. The genus name is Latin for a swallow. These are the typical swallows, including the widespread barn swallow. Many of this g
Hirundo rustica Saxony, Germany 8
H. rustica foraging
Windows in the tail of H. rustica
Tail streamers of H. smithii filifera
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
Hirundo
…Pacific. Tahiti swallow Hirundo tahitica Islands of Moorea and Tahiti in French Polynesia Hill swallow Hirundo domicola Southern India and Sri Lanka. Welcome swallow Hirundo neoxena Australia and nearby islands. White-throated swallow Hirundo albigularis Southern Africa from Angola and Zambia southwards to the Cape…
Hirundo neoxena risdon
Copulating welcome swallows
Chicks the day after fledging
Parents (left) and three chicks