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Pacific Swallow

Hirundo javanica

Not Evaluated · IUCN Red List

NENot EvaluatedInvertebratesCoastalCup nestSmall · 18 g
Pacific Swallow (Hirundo javanica), photo 1
Photo: Johnny Wee · CC BY 2.0
Pacific Swallow (Hirundo javanica), photo 2
Photo: Ian Dugdale (ian_dugdale) · CC BY 4.0
Pacific Swallow (Hirundo javanica), photo 3
Photo: Fajar Alfitrian (fajaralfitrian) · CC0
Pacific Swallow (Hirundo javanica), photo 4
Photo: Lee Ismail (lee_i1978) · CC BY 4.0
Pacific Swallow (Hirundo javanica), photo 5
Photo: Mike Prince from Bangalore, India · CC BY 2.0
Pacific Swallow (Hirundo javanica), photo 6
Photo: Ian Dugdale (ian_dugdale) · CC BY 4.0
Pacific Swallow (Hirundo javanica), photo 7
Photo: pittafisher · CC BY 4.0
Pacific Swallow (Hirundo javanica), photo 8
Photo: Chrissy McClarren and Andy Reago (wildreturn) · CC0
Pacific Swallow (Hirundo javanica), photo 9
Photo: Jan Ebr & Ivana Ebrová (opisska) · CC BY 4.0
Pacific Swallow (Hirundo javanica), photo 10
Photo: Cheongweei Gan (gancw1) · CC BY 4.0

ID tip

This species is a small swallow at 13 cm (5.1 in) in length. It has a blue-black back and crown with browner wings and tail, a red face and throat, and dusky underparts. It differs from the barn swallow and the closely related welcome swallow in its shorter and less forked tail.

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When to see the Pacific Swallow

One bar for each month, and every month is filled: this bird is recorded here in all twelve. The wide bar is December, the month with the most records.

Where to see the Pacific Swallow

Regular range

The map shades 20 countries with regular records. Everything unshaded has no records. Countries are listed below the map.

Taiwan Malaysia Singapore Indonesia Philippines Thailand Papua New Guinea Japan India Fiji Vanuatu Solomon Islands Brunei Timor-Leste Cambodia New Caledonia Vietnam Tonga Sri Lanka Myanmar (Burma)

About the Pacific Swallow

The Pacific swallow is a small passerine bird in the swallow family Hirundinidae. It breeds in tropical southern Asia and the islands of the south Pacific. It is resident apart from some local seasonal movements. This bird is associated with coasts, but is increasingly spreading to forested uplands. It was formerly treated as conspecific with hill swallow, the welcome swallow and the Tahiti swallow.

Text adapted from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

Easily confused with

Wire-tailed Swallow (Hirundo smithii) Wire-tailed SwallowHirundo smithiiThe wire-tailed swallow is a small swallow, measuring 18 cm (7.1 in) in length. White-throated Swallow (Hirundo albigularis) White-throated SwallowHirundo albigularisThe white-throated swallow is 14–17 cm long. Pearl-breasted Swallow (Hirundo dimidiata) Pearl-breasted SwallowHirundo dimidiataThe pearl-breasted swallow is 13–14 cm long.

Side by side: Barn Swallow vs Pacific Swallow · Pacific Swallow vs Welcome Swallow · Pacific Swallow vs Wire-tailed Swallow · Pacific Swallow vs White-throated Swallow · Pacific Swallow vs Pearl-breasted Swallow

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