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English Barn Swallow
Scientific (Hirundo rustica erythrogaster)
Order PASSERIFORMES
Family (Latin) Hirundinidae
Family (English) Swallows, Martins
Other name(s) European Swallow, Swallow, Hirondelle de cheminée
Breeding Regions Worldwide
Breeding Range Subregions Eurasia and North America
Nonbreeding Range Subregions
Countries (BETA)map Afghanistan,Albania,Algeria,Andorra,Angola,Anguilla,Antigua and Barbuda,Argentina,Armenia,Australia, Austria,Azerbaijan,Bahamas,Bahrain,Bangladesh,Barbados,Belarus,Belgium,Belize,Benin, Bermuda,Bhutan,Bolivia,Bosnia and Herzegovina,Botswana,Brazil,British Virgin Islands,Bulgaria,Burkina Faso,Burundi, Cambodia,Cameroon,Canada,Cape Verde,Cayman Islands,Central African Republic,Chad,Chile,China,Colombia, Comoros,Congo,Costa Rica,Croatia,Cuba,Cyprus,Czech Republic,Democratic Republic of Congo,Denmark,Djibouti, Dominica,Dominican Republic,Ecuador - Galapagos Islands,Ecuador - mainland,Egypt,El Salvador,Equatorial Guinea,Eritrea,Estonia,Ethiopia, Finland,France,French Guiana,French Polynesia,Gabon,Gambia,Georgia,Germany,Ghana,Gibraltar, Greece,Grenada,Guam,Guatemala,Guinea,Guinea-Bissau,Guyana,Haiti,Honduras,Hong Kong, Hungary,India - Andaman and Nicobar Islands,India - mainland,Indonesia,Iran,Iraq,Ireland,Israel,Italy,Ivory Coast, Jamaica,Japan,Jordan,Kazakhstan,Kenya,Kuwait,Kyrgyzstan,Laos,Latvia,Lebanon, Lesotho,Liberia,Libya,Liechtenstein,Lithuania,Luxembourg,Macao,Macedonia,Madagascar,Malawi, Malaysia,Maldives,Mali,Malta,Marshall Islands,Mauritania,Mexico,Micronesia,Moldova,Monaco, Mongolia,Montenegro,Montserrat,Morocco,Mozambique,Myanmar,Namibia,Nepal,Netherlands,Netherlands Antilles, Nicaragua,Niger,Nigeria,North Korea,Northern Mariana Islands,Norway,Oman,Pakistan,Palau,Palestine, Panama,Papua New Guinea,Paraguay,Peru,Philippines,Poland,Portugal,Puerto Rico,Qatar,Romania, Russia,Rwanda,Saint Kitts and Nevis,Saint Lucia,Saint Vincent and the Grenadines,San Marino,Sao Tome and Principe,Saudi Arabia,Senegal,Serbia, Seychelles,Sierra Leone,Singapore,Slovakia,Slovenia,Somalia,South Africa,South Korea,South Sudan,Spain, Sri Lanka,Sudan,Suriname,Swaziland,Sweden,Switzerland,Syria,Taiwan,Tajikistan,Tanzania, Thailand,Togo,Trinidad and Tobago,Tunisia,Turkey,Turkmenistan,Turks and Caicos Islands,Uganda,Ukraine,United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom,United States - Alaska,United States - mainland,Uruguay,Uzbekistan,Venezuela,Vietnam,Virgin Islands,Western Sahara,Yemen, Zambia,Zimbabwe,
IOC 13.1 Subspecies Group Subspecies Breeding Range
rustica Europe, w, c Asia and n Africa
savignii Egypt
transitiva Lebanon, Syria, Israel and Jordan
tytleri sc Siberia
gutturalis e Himalayas to Korean Pen. and Japan, e, s China and Taiwan
saturata e Siberia
mandschurica ne China
erythrogaster Alaska, Canada and the USA to s Mexico
IUCN Status Code LC (Birdlife factsheet )
Described by Linnaeus, 1758
German Rauchschwalbe
French Hirondelle rustique
Chinese 家燕
Japanese ツバメ
Russian Деревенская ласточка, ласточка-касатка
Spanish Golondrina común
Portuguese andorinha-das-chaminés
Bird Data App text A widespread migratory species.
Show Breeding Range Codes and IUCN Status Codes
Breeding Range Codes
AF Africa (entire continent rather than south of Sahara)
AN Antarctica
AO Atlantic Ocean
AU Australasia (Wallacea (Indonesian islands east of Wallace's line), New Guinea and its islands, Australia, New Zealand and its subantarctic islands, the Solomons, New Caledonia, and Vanuatu)
PAL Eurasia (Europe, Asia from the Middle East through central Asia north of the Himalayas, Siberia and northern China to Japan)
IO Indian Ocean
LA Latin America (Middle and South America)
MA Middle America (Mexico through Panama)
NA North America (includes the Caribbean)
NO Northern oceans
OR Oriental Region (South Asia from Pakistan to Taiwan, plus Southeast Asia, the Philippines, and Greater Sundas)
PO Pacific Ocean
SA South America
SO Southern oceans
TO Temperate oceans
TrO Tropical oceans
Worldwide Worldwide
IUCN Status Codes
EX Extinct
EW Extinct in the wild
CR Critically Endangered
EN Endangered
VU Vulnerable
NT Near Threatened
LC Least Concern
DD Data deficient
NE Not evaluated
PE Probably extinct (informal)
PEW Probably extinct in the wild (informal)