barn swallow

barn swallow

English

European subspecies, H. r. rustica in Denmark.

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Noun

barn swallow (plural barn swallows)

1. Hirundo rustica, the most widespread species of swallow in the world; a distinctive passerine bird with blue upperparts, a long, deeply forked tail and curved, pointed wings, is found in Europe, Asia, Africa and the Americas.

Translations

species of swallow

Afrikaans: europese swael Arabic: خطاف المخازن‎ Armenian: գյուղական ծիծեռնակ (gyułakan ciceṙnak) Asturian: andarina f Azerbaijani: kənd qaraquşu Belarusian: вясковая ластаўка f (vjaskóvaja lastaŭka) Bengali: পাতি আবাবিল (pati ababil) Bulgarian: селска лястовица f (selska ljastovica) Cherokee: ᎠᏃᏍᏓᏱ (anosdayi) Chinese: Mandarin: 家燕 (zh) (jiāyàn) Chuvash: ял чӗкеҫӗ (jal č̬ĕk̬eś̬ĕ) Czech: vlaštovka (cs) f Danish: landsvale (da) c, forstuesvale c Dutch: boerenzwaluw (nl) f Finnish: haarapääsky (fi) French: hirondelle rustique (fr) f, hirondelle de cheminée (fr) f, hirondelle des granges (fr) f Galician: anduriña (gl) f Georgian: სოფლის მერცხალი (soplis mercxali) German: Rauchschwalbe f Greek: σταβλοχελίδονο n (stavlochelídono), χελιδόνι (el) n (chelidóni) Greenlandic: tulugarnaq Guaraní: mbyju'i-jetapa, mbyju'i jetapa Hebrew: סנונית הרפתות‎ Hungarian: füsti fecske (hu) Icelandic: landsvala (is) f Inuktitut: tulugarnaq Italian: rondine comune Japanese: 燕 (ja) (ツバメ, tsubame) Kazakh: қыстау қарлығашы (qystau qarlyğaşy) Khakas: аал харачхайы (aal xaraçxayı) Korean: 제비 (ko) (jebi) Latin: hirundo f Latvian: bezdelīga f Manx: gollan geayee Mongolian: ᠠᠰᠠᠷ ᠤᠨ ᠠᠯᠲᠠᠨ ᠬᠠᠷᠢᠶᠠᠴᠠᠢ (asar-un altan qariyačai̯) Navajo: táshchozhiiłchííʼ Northern Sami: suorrespálfu, (please verify) čuonjáráhtogoaskin Norwegian: Bokmål: låvesvale f Nynorsk: låvesvale f Occitan: ironda (oc) f Ojibwe: ᔕᔕᐊᐧᓂᐱᓯ Persian: چلچله‎ (fa) (čelčele), بلوایه‎ (fa) (bolvāye) Plautdietsch: Husschwaulm n Polish: dymówka (pl) f Portuguese: andorinha-de-bando f, andorinha-das-chaminés f, andorinha comum f Romanian: randunea f Russian: дереве́нская ла́сточка f (derevénskaja lástočka), каса́тка (ru) f (kasátka) Serbo-Croatian: lastavica (sh) f Slovene: kmečka lastovka f Spanish: golondrina (es) f Sudovian: smikuta f Swedish: ladusvala (sv) c Tagalog: layang-layang Tamil: தகைவிலான் (takaivilāṉ) Thai: นกนางแอ่นบ้าน (nók naaŋ-àeen bâan) Tswana: pêolwane Turkish: kır kırlangıcı (tr) Turkmen: kır kırlangıcı Ukrainian: ластівка f (lastivka)

Further reading

• barn swallow on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Hirundo rustica on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Hirundo rustica on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
• barn swallow at Integrated Taxonomic Information System.