#1388 · 🐦 birds
Welcome Swallow
🇳🇱 Welkomzwaluw ·Hirundo neoxena
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what is it?
The welcome swallow ( Hirundo neoxena ) is a small passerine bird in the swallow family.
base stats
Bars compare against all animals on log scales: up to 300,000 Dutch and 600,000 worldwide sightings (the most-seen species), 150 t (blue whale), 30 m and 400 years (Greenland shark).
fun facts
- No confirmed wild sightings in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: you'd have to travel for this one.
- 26,535 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Weighs only about 15 g.
- Scientifically named by John Gould in 1842 (184 years ago).
fact sheet
- English
- Welcome Swallow
- Nederlands
- Welkomzwaluw
- scientific name
- Hirundo neoxena
- class
- Aves
- order
- Passeriformes
- family
- Hirundinidae
- IUCN Red List
- LC · least concern
- sightings in NL
- 0
- sightings worldwide
- 26,535
- GBIF records in NL
- 0
- weight
- 15 g
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1842 by John Gould
IUCN in Dutch: niet bedreigd. Blank means the sources don't say.
relatives· Hirundinidae
#0588 📷 10Barn Swallow
🇳🇱 Boerenzwaluw
Hirundo rustica
LC 👀 1.1k in NL
#0644 📷 9Western House Martin
🇳🇱 Huiszwaluw
Delichon urbicum
LC 👀 320 in NL
#0645 📷 10Bank Swallow
🇳🇱 Oeverzwaluw
Riparia riparia
LC 👀 320 in NL
#0942 📷 7European Red-rumped Swallow
🇳🇱 Roodstuitzwaluw
Cecropis rufula
👀 3 in NL
#0958 📷 9Eurasian Crag-Martin
🇳🇱 Rotszwaluw
Ptyonoprogne rupestris
LC 👀 2 in NL
#1043 📷 10Tree Swallow
🇳🇱 Boomzwaluw
Tachycineta bicolor
LC 🌍 90.9k seen
#1078 📷 10Cliff Swallow
🇳🇱 Amerikaanse Klifzwaluw
Petrochelidon pyrrhonota
LC 🌍 37.7k seen
#1347 📷 10Northern Rough-winged Swallow
🇳🇱 Noord-Amerikaanse Ruwvleugelzwaluw
Stelgidopteryx serripennis
LC 🌍 35.8k seen
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 11882, Wikidata Q938692, GBIF 5230789, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.