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Barn swallow at the moment when its beak touches the water to have a drink in Bagmati River, Nepal A reflection flight of barn swallow The barn swallow has an enormous range, with an estimated global extent of about 250,000,000 km 2 (97,000,000 sq mi) and a population of 190 million individuals.
An artificial purple martin nesting colony The barn swallow is the national bird of Estonia. [48] They also are one of the most depicted birds on postage stamps around the world. [49] [50] [51] Swallows are tolerated by humans because of their beneficial role as insect eaters, and some species have readily adapted to nesting in and around human ...
The bird genus Hirundo is a group of passerines in the family Hirundinidae (swallows and martins). The genus name is Latin for a swallow. [1] These are the typical swallows, including the widespread barn swallow. Many of this group have blue backs, red on the face and sometimes the rump or nape, and whitish or rufous underparts. With fifteen ...
The common swift (Apus apus) is a medium-sized bird, superficially similar to the barn swallow or house martin but somewhat larger, though not stemming from those passerine species, being in the order Apodiformes. The resemblances between the groups are due to convergent evolution, reflecting similar contextual development.
Purple martins are generally known to raise only a single brood. The average clutch size is four to six eggs per nest. Females lay one egg a day and incubation begins when the penultimate (second to last) egg is laid. Incubation lasts 15–16 days and the female is the main incubator, with some help from the male.
The wire-tailed swallow is a member of the genus Hirundo, a cosmopolitan group of "barn swallows". It has two subspecies: [5] H. s. smithii was first described by William Elford Leach and K. D. Koenig in 1818. [6] Known as the African wire-tailed swallow, it is found throughout Africa. [5] H. s. filifera was first described by Stephens in 1826. [6]
In size they range from 8 cm (3.1 in) to 1 m (3.3 ft) in length. Most of the more than 150 species in this family are found in the New World. ... Barn swallow. The ...
European red-rumped swallow (split from C. daurica) south Europe and north Africa east to Iran, Pakistan and northwest India Cecropis daurica: Eastern red-rumped swallow (formerly red-rumped swallow before lump of striated swallow C. striolata and splits of C. rufula and C. melanocrissus) South and Southeast Asia to northeastern India and Taiwan