Animals / Bird

Barn swallow

Hirundo rustica · Hirundinidae

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".

Where the Barn swallow lives

Recorded in United States of America, Spain, Canada, Sweden, United Kingdom, France, Finland, Denmark, Netherlands, South Africa, Taiwan, Norway and India (North America, Europe, Africa and Asia).

Most records fall in Western Cape, Texas, KwaZulu-Natal, Cádiz, California and Mpumalanga.

See the Barn swallow’s range on the globe

Conservation status

Least concern (LC). Not at risk: it is doing well in the wild. Categories are the IUCN Red List as republished by GBIF.

Sources

The range is a density of 17,503,158 georeferenced GBIF records, not an expert-drawn map. Description from Wikipedia.