| Barn Swallow Hirundo rustica |
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The Barn Swallow is a very cosmopolitan bird breeding in the northern hemisphere and migrating to the southern hemisphere when not breeding. See the distribution map at Birdlife International. In Europe, it arrives from Africa in about April and flies back there around October. |
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The bird on the left of the second photo shows rufous-buff underparts. This may be a sub-species since there are two with rufous-buff underparts. One is H. r. erythrogaster which breeds in North America and winters in South America and the other is H. r. transitiva which breeds in the eastern Mediterranean. I am grateful to Rick Northup for his comments on this bird. | |||
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The third photo shows a typical mud nest while photos 4 and 5 show juveniles with their reddish-buff forehead and chin and lack of long tail streamers. | |||
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