Welcome Swallow
Hirundo neoxena
- Class
- Bird
- Rarity
- Common
- Observations
- 17,548
- Most observed in
- 🇦🇺 Australia
- Conservation
- Least Concern
Description
The welcome swallow is a small passerine bird in the swallow family Hirundinidae that is native to Australia and nearby islands. It has self-introduced into New Zealand in the middle of the twentieth century. It is very similar to the Pacific swallow with which it is often considered conspecific.
Summary adapted from the Wikipedia article “Welcome swallow”.