barn swallow
chimney swallow
Hirundo rustica latin

So the birds managed to do their barn swallow thing before there were barns.

He has studied barn swallows, in which the males have tails that are about 20 percent longer than those of the female.

What we are missing here, in this kingdom of airborne bugs, is barn swallows.

These are the typical swallows, including the widespread Barn Swallow.

The barn swallow, the national bird, is a characteristic guest of Estonian homes.

Where the phoebes will not fly, the barn swallows take over, also pursuing insects.

It has a slow buoyant flight compared to Barn Swallow.

Many of these are migratory, including the Barn Swallow.

It was a New Ambrosia for barn swallows and bats.

Fly out of bed like a barn swallow."

That's why he is called the Barn Swallow, and why you never have seen his nest.

In the explosive height of the loft, barn swallows took shadowed wing.

Today hundreds of barn swallows nest in roof crannies.

Barn swallows and dragonflies snarfed up insects over the lawn.

In spring, festival that commemorates barn swallows are coming is held and women cook pancake.

Some quality about this place, some aspect of its rusticity, will not be official until the barn swallows move in.

This is the day when the barn swallows return, snakes awaken from the winter sleep, and butterflies begin to fly.

A barn swallow in flight on a landscape background is featured on the reverse side of the bill.

Barn swallows dipped and dived over the road.

Such observations have been made among red-winged blackbirds, barn swallows, and African penguins.

In flight, it looks paler underneath than Barn Swallow.

This is not just found in humans but other experiments such as the brush-legged wolf spider and the barn swallow birds.

Biologists warn that what is true for barn swallows may not turn out to be true for other animals.

The Barn Swallow is the national bird of Estonia.

This idea was tested in 1994 in barn swallows, a species where males have long tail streamers.

"I suppose it's the same with your cousin; Sooty the Chimney Swallow," said Johnny.

His voice drifted off as we watched a chimney swallow perched at the round door of her nesting box jab food into a number of pink gaping mouths.

Chimney swallows were darting swiftly across the yard, and chickens, ducks and turkeys were waddling and strutting and straggling in from the fields.

Above their heads a flock of chimney swallows whirled suddenly on swift wings and now and then a rabbit scurried startled across the road, his white tail bobbing like an eiderdown powder puff.

This misconception continued well into the 1800s, with ornithologists calling it "American Swallow" (e.g. Mark Catesby) or "Chimney Swallow" (e.g. John James Audubon).

The horses, feeling slack reins, stretched down their necks to crop the tender spring grass, and the patient hounds lay down again in the soft red dust and looked up longingly at the chimney swallows circling in the gathering dusk.

Deceptive alarm calls are used by male swallows (Hirundo rustica).

A swallow (Hirundo rustica) feeding its young.

Post-fledging roosting at the nest in juvenile barn swallows (Hirundo rustica).

The Barn Swallow (Hirundo rustica) is the most widespread species of swallow in the world.

Hirundo rustica (Barn Swallow)

SWALLOW Hirundo rustica.

Barn swallows (Hirundo rustica) that live in or around Chernobyl have displayed an increased rate of physical abnormalities compared to swallows from uncontaminated areas.

The winter range in northern Australia overlaps with that of wintering Barn Swallow (Hirundo rustica), but the latter is readily separable by its blue breast band.

It recounts the author's experience of following migrating Barn Swallows (Hirundo Rustica) from their wintering grounds in South Africa to their breeding sites in Britain.

The Barn Swallow was described by Linnaeus in his Systema Naturae in 1758 as Hirundo rustica, characterised as H. rectricibus, exceptis duabus intermediis, macula alba notatîs.