Hirundo neoxena
1 Welcome Swallow at Parkes, ACT
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| Hirundo neoxena | natureguy | 10 Oct 2018 | |
| Hirundo neoxena | JonSteinbeck | 10 Oct 2018 |
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I saw these six swallows landing in a mud puddle. The final photo shows how much a swallow will open its beak to get some mud. I noticed the swallows seemed to be particular about their mud, as it was only from one of the mud puddles. Even when I was only a few metres away, and there was another mud puddle further from me, which some swallows landed at but rejected, the birds kept returning to this mud puddle. Photos 2-4 are of the same bird taken successively showing that it took several goes to get a large amount of mud before it flew off. The birds appeared to collect mud together, in that they would arrive at roughly the same time, swoop around the area at low height; land to start collecting mud; then all depart together. After flying off I could not track them visually but they appeared to be flying towards the wall leading to Kings Avenue bridge.
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Location information
- Coordinates 149.142168-35.298660
- Altitude 560.0m
- Maps Lake Burley Griffin Central/East Mount Ainslie to Black Mountain
- Places Parkes, ACT
Sighting information
- 6 Abundance
- 9 Oct 2018 07:40 AM Recorded on
- JonSteinbeck Recorded by
Collections
- BIrdsinCanberra Canberra & Southern Tablelands NatureMapr Hirundo neoxena Intermediate size Other Birds Birds
Species information
- Hirundo neoxena Scientific name
- Welcome Swallow Common name
- Not Sensitive
- Local native
- Non-invasive or negligible
- Up to 1321.3m Recorded at altitude
Seasonal activity
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Nesting site
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