Barn Swallow
Hirundo rustica
- Class
- Bird
- Rarity
- Common
- Observations
- 145,684
- Most observed in
- 🇺🇸 United States
- Conservation
- Least Concern
Description
The barn swallow is the most widespread species of swallow in the world, occurring on all continents, with vagrants reported even in Antarctica. It is a distinctive passerine bird with blue upperparts and a long, deeply forked tail. In Anglophone Europe, it is just called the swallow; in northern Europe, it is the only member of family Hirundinidae called a "swallow" rather than a "martin".
Summary adapted from the Wikipedia article “Barn swallow”.