#1043 · 🐦 birds

Tree Swallow

🇳🇱 Boomzwaluw ·Tachycineta bicolor

LCleast concern 🐦 Birds 📍 in Europe, not in NL

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

1. © Carter Dorscht · CC0
2. © thegreenjay · CC BY-NC 4.0
3. © Callicladium · CC BY-NC 4.0
4. © roy pilcher · CC BY-NC 4.0
5. © Greg Lasley · CC BY-NC 4.0
6. © Bridget Spencer · CC BY-NC 4.0
7. © Bridget Spencer · CC BY-NC 4.0
8. © Bear Golden Retriever from auburn,ny, usa · CC BY 4.0
9. © Randy · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
10. © cooleoptera · CC BY-NC 4.0

what is it?

The tree swallow ( Tachycineta bicolor ) is a migratory passerine bird that breeds in North America and winters in Mexico, Central America and the Caribbean. It is a very rare vagrant to western Europe.

base stats

NL sightings 0iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 90,920iNaturalist 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).

fun facts

No confirmed wild sightings in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: you'd have to travel for this one.
90,920 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
Scientifically named by Louis Pierre Vieillot in 1808 (218 years ago).