#0588 · 🐦 birds

Barn Swallow

🇳🇱 Boerenzwaluw ·Hirundo rustica

LCleast concern 🐦 Birds 📍 in the Netherlands

10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences

1. © Ad Konings · CC BY-NC 4.0
2. © Donald Davesne · CC BY 4.0
3. © Blair Dudeck · CC BY-NC 4.0
4. © brian stahls · CC BY-NC 4.0
5. © Jing-Yi Lu · CC BY-NC 4.0
6. © Ad Konings · CC BY-NC 4.0
7. © Grayson · CC BY-NC 4.0
8. © Kent Ross · CC BY-NC 4.0
9. © Thorsten Stegmann · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
10. © Robbie Hannawacker · CC0

what is it?

The barn swallow ( Hirundo rustica ) is the most widespread species of swallow in the world. It is a distinctive passerine bird with blue upperparts, a long, deeply forked tail and curved, pointed wings. It is found in Europe, Asia, Africa and the Americas. In Anglophone Europe it is just called the swallow ; in Northern Europe it is the only common species called a "swallow" rather than a "martin".

base stats

NL sightings 1,147iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 245,292iNaturalist observations
threat LCleast concern

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).