Asian house martin
delichon dasypus latin

The area is also known as a home for the kingfisher and the Asian House Martin.

The Asian House Martin feeds on small insects taken in flight, usually caught high in the air.

However, the House Martin now largely uses human structures, as, to a lesser extent, does the Asian House Martin.

Its closest relatives are the two other members of the genus, the Asian House Martin and the Common House Martin.

The range of this species overlaps with that of the nominate subspecies of Asian House Martin, although they breed at different altitudes.

The Asian House Martin (Delichon dasypus) is a migratory passerine bird of the swallow family Hirundinidae.

Asian House Martin (Delichon dasypus) described as Chelidon dasypus by Bonaparte in 1850.

Asian House Martin is more similar to Common House Martin, but is darker underneath and has a less deeply forked tail.

The Asian House Martin is a cliff nester, breeding in colonies sited under an overhang on a vertical cliff, usually with the nests not touching.

The Asian House Martin has a large range that does not appear to be contracting, and its numbers appear to be stable, although the total population is unknown.

The preferred habitat of the Asian House Martin is valleys and gorges in mountainous areas or coastal cliffs, where natural caves or crevices provide nest sites.

The other two species favour mountainous country (and sea cliffs in the case of Asian House Martin); they use buildings as nest sites less frequently than their northern relative.

The Asian House Martin is a host of the house martin flea Ceratophyllus hirundinis, and has recently been shown to carry signs of avian malaria.

The Asian House Martin appears to occasionally take terrestrial springtails and larvae and the Common House Martin also sometimes feeds on the ground.

It resembles its close relatives, the Asian House Martin and Common House Martin, but unlike those species it has a black throat and black undertail.

The numbers of the two Asian species are unknown, but both can be locally common or abundant, and the Asian House Martin is extending its range in southern Siberia.

The nominate subspecies of the Asian House Martin, D. d. dasypus, breeds in the southeast of Russia, the Kuril Islands, Japan and sometimes Korea.

Unlike its relatives, the Asian House Martin frequently does not complete the enclosure of its nest, leaving it open instead like a deeper version of a Barn Swallow nest.

Distinctive species plumage features are the black chin and black undertail coverts of Nepal House Martin, and the greyish wash to the underparts of Asian House Martin.

D. u. lagopodum differs from the nominate race in that its white rump extends much further onto the tail, and the fork of its tail is intermediate in depth between that of D. u. urbicum and that of the Asian House Martin.

The Asian House Martin breeds further south than Common House Martin in the mountains of central and eastern Asia; its nominate subspecies winters in Southeast Asia, but the races breeding in the Himalayan and Taiwan may just move from the high mountains to lower altitudes.

The Asian House Martin (Delichon dasypus) is a migratory passerine bird of the swallow family Hirundinidae.

Asian House Martin (Delichon dasypus) described as Chelidon dasypus by Bonaparte in 1850.