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Barn swallow

Hirundo rustica

Description:

The first and third pictures are of a juvenile bird. It has steel blue upperparts and a rufous forehead, chin and throat, which are separated from the off-white underparts by a broad dark blue breast band. The outer tail feathers are elongated, giving the distinctive deeply forked "swallow tail". There is a line of white spots across the outer end of the upper tail. The female is similar in appearance to the male, but the tail streamers are shorter, the blue of the upperparts and breast band is less glossy, and the underparts paler. The juvenile is browner and has a paler rufous face and whiter underparts. It also lacks the long tail streamers of the adult.

Habitat:

Spotted inside IIM Trichy campus, Tamilnadu.

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Nidhin Basheer
Spotted by
Nidhin Basheer

Tamil Nadu, India

Spotted on Nov 15, 2016
Submitted on Nov 15, 2016

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