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Swallows, martins, and saw-wings are passerines with a distinctive appearance and long, pointed wings. They are found on all continents except Antarctica, and have diverse nesting strategies and migratory patterns.
Learn about swallow, a group of about 90 species of small birds with pointed wings and short bills. Find out how swallows capture insects, nest in various ways, and migrate long distances.
Learn how to identify swifts, swallows and martins. These birds are all summer visitors to the UK. Here's how you can find the difference between a swift and a swallow or work out what kind of martin you could have spotted!
Swallows are small birds with dark, glossy-blue backs, red throats, pale underparts and long tail streamers. They are extremely agile in flight and spend most of their time in the air. They are widespread breeding birds in the Northern Hemisphere, migrating south in winter.
Everything you should know about the Swallow. The Swallow is a group of small birds with 90 different species. These are tiny insect-eating dynamos!
The barn swallow (Hirundo rustica) is the most widespread species of swallow in the world, occurring on all continents, with vagrants reported even in Antarctica. [2][3] It is a distinctive passerine bird with blue upperparts and a long, deeply forked tail.
The Swallow can be found across Britain & Ireland and can be seen flying at speed just inches above its favoured grassland feeding habitat as it snatches its insect prey. UK Swallow have fluctuated sharply in recent decades, with declines seen in England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland since about 2010.
