๐Ÿพ What Animal Lives Where

Where does the Welcome Swallow live?

Hirundo neoxena has 1,897,769 records in 7 countries and territories, from 1803 to 2026. Most records come from Australia.

Welcome Swallow
Welcome Swallow โ€” JJ Harrison (https://www.jjharrison.com.au/) / CC BY-SA 3.0 ยท source
AnimaliaChordataAvesPasseriformesHirundinidaeHirundo

When it is recorded

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Peak month: October. Records cluster in the months an animal is present and being looked for, so a summer peak can reflect observer effort as much as the animal.

Where it is recorded

PlaceRecordsShare
Australia 1,667,493
New Zealand 227,867
Norfolk Island 2,099
New Caledonia 303
Japan 2
United States 2
Greece 1

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Others in the family Hirundinidae.

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Status from the records: resident
Recorded across many years and months โ€” an established presence. This is inferred from how many years and months the animal appears in, not from a range map โ€” treat it as evidence, not a formal assessment.