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Hirundo_rustica_-_Barn_Swallow_-_XC83449.ogg (Ogg Vorbis sound file, length 19 s, 127 kbps, file size: 289 KB) This is a file from the Wikimedia Commons . Information from its description page there is shown below.
The barn swallow (Hirundo rustica) is the most widespread species of swallow in the world, occurring on all continents, with vagrants reported even in Antarctica. [2] [3] It is a distinctive passerine bird with blue upperparts and a long, deeply forked tail.
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.
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 ...
English: A European Barn Swallow, also known as Hirundo rustica, pauses to rest on a fence post beside a freshwater lake on Lindisfarne Island. Македонски: Селска ластовичка ( Hirundo rustica ) се одмора на дирек крај езеро на островот Линдисфарн кај Англија.
A decade or more before Bakersfield became the spiritual home for country music in the Central Valley of California, there was the Big Fresno Barn. ... sound, played at the barn at least twice ...
California's defunct Clean Vehicle Rebate Program offered rebates on electric cars as high as $2,500. Austin is a corps member for the Associated Press/Report for America Statehouse News Initiative.
While acknowledging that Washington's actions were "totally unacceptable," she pointed out that the president-elect had "deliberately and outspokenly withheld aid from his political rivals -- from ...