Near Mareeba Wetlands
21Oct2015
Welcome Swallow
Native to Australia and nearby
islands...commonly found on
wires, posts and other perches.
Hirundo neoxena
(L 5.9" Wt 0.32-0.71 oz)
O tell her, Swallow, thou that knowest each,
That bright and fierce and fickle is the South,
And dark and true and tender is the North.
(Alfred, Lord Tennyson)
© Marc
Anderson
xeno-canto
Hirundo is Latin for swallow;
neoxena is Latin for new,
different stranger.
© eBird