Barn Swallow

Birds Observed at Our Pleasant Hill, Oregon Home

Location in Oregon
Blue is Winter range - Red is Summer range
Purple is Year-round range - Yellow is Migration range

Barn Swallow range

Barn Swallow

Hirundo rustica - Common near farms, where it builds a mud nest on timbers of barns and other buildings. The only common swallow with a deeply forked tail; others with rusty underparts have orange rumps. Song, long and twittering.


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