Vik's Gallery:   Welcome Swallow (3/6)

PASSERIFORMES: Hirundinidae

Hirundo neoxena  

The Welcome Swallow is one of the few species to have increased in numbers since European settlement. The clearance of timber for pasture and agriculture has created more of the open country favoured by the bird, and the building of houses, culverts, bridges and mineshafts have provided it with suitable nesting places.*

*Frith, H.J. (Ed.) (1983). Reader's Digest Complete Book of Australian Birds. Readers Digest Services, p.339.