Hirundo rustica

IOC Classification: Domain: Eukaryota • Regnum: Animalia • Phylum: Chordata • Subphylum: Vertebrata • Infraphylum: Gnathostomata • Superclassis: Tetrapoda • Classis: Aves • Superordo: Neognathae • Ordo: Passeriformes • Subordo: Passeri • Superfamilia: Sylvioidea • Familia: Hirundinidae • Genus: Hirundo • Species: Hirundo rustica Linnaeus, 1758

Vernacular names

English: Barn Swallow · Afrikaans: Europese swael · Bahasa Indonesia: Layang-layang Asia · Bahasa Melayu: Burung Layang-layang Hijrah · Bân-lâm-gú: Ìⁿ-á · Brezhoneg: Gwennili · Български: Селска лястовица · Català: Oreneta comuna · Česky: Vlaštovka obecná · Cymraeg: Gwennol · Dansk: Landsvale · Deutsch: Rauchschwalbe · Eesti: Suitsupääsuke · Español: Golondrina común · Esperanto: Domhirundo · Euskara: Enara · Français: Hirondelle rustique · Frysk: Boereswel · Galego: Andoriña · 한국어: 제비 · Lietuvių: Šelmeninė kregždė · Magyar: Füsti fecske · Македонски: Селска ластовичка · Nederlands: Boerenzwaluw · 日本語: ツバメ（燕） · Norsk bokmål: Låvesvale · Occitan: Ironda · Polski: Jaskółka dymówka · Português: Andorinha-das-chaminés · Română: Rândunică · Русский: Деревенская ласточка · Sámegiella: Suorrespálfu · Slovenčina: Lastovička obyčajná · Suomi: Haarapääsky · Svenska: Ladusvala · Türkçe: Kır kırlangıcı · Žemaitėška: Blezdinga · 中文: 家燕 ·

IUCN: Hirundo rustica Linnaeus, 1758 (Least Concern)

Hirundo rustica rustica [edit]

Breeding Europe, western Asia; wintering Africa, SW Asia

Perched [edit]

Chemnitz, Germany
Chemnitz, Germany
Bygholm Vejle, Denmark
Lithuania
Heiligenhafen, Germany
Veszprém, Hungary
Dasiūnai, Kaunas district, Lithuania
Lausitz, Germany
Devon, England
Kaliakra, Bulgaria
Kaliakra, Bulgaria
Lednický areál, Czech Republic
Vilnius, Lithuania
Vilnius, Lithuania
Vilnius, Lithuania
Kursiu nerija, Lithuania
Two young; Poland
Young, Białowieża, Polska, 06.2006
Lithuania
København, Denmark
Tellin, Belgium
Netherlands
Vogtland, Germany

In flight [edit]

Hannover, Germany
Langwied, Bavaria, Germany

Nests with juveniles [edit]

Saint-Pierre-le-Moutier, Nièvre, France
Ojerslust, Willeskop, Netherlands
Losar de la Vera, Cáceres, Spain
Poland
East Linton, East Lothian, Scotland
Fehmarn, Germany
Amrum, Germany
Galicia, Spain
Bohonal de Ibor, Spain

Eggs [edit]

Museum specimen
North American Subspecies
NA Subspecies

Juveniles outside the nest [edit]

Baden-Württemberg, Germany
Cambridgeshire, England
Feeding juveniles; Gubbeen, County Cork, Ireland
Cronskamp, Nordwestmecklenburg, Germany

East Asian subspecies [edit]

Breeding eastern Asia; wintering southern Asia, northern Australasia. Three subspecies are accepted (IOC, H. r. tytleri (breeds south-central Siberia, Mongolia), H. r. gutturalis (breeds temperate eastern Asia), and H. r. saturata (breeds eastern Siberia), with much mixing on the southern Asian wintering grounds, where individuals are rarely identifiable to subspecies.