Australian Biological Resources Study

Australian Faunal Directory

Species Hirundo (Hirundo) rustica Linnaeus, 1758

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Species Hirundo (Hirundo) rustica Linnaeus, 1758

Barn Swallow

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia


Note that conversion of the original AFD map of states, drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones to IBRA and IMCRA regions may have produced errors. The new maps will be reviewed and corrected as updates occur. The maps may not indicate the entire distribution. See further details below.
IBRA and IMCRA regions (map not available)
drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones (map not available)

IBRA

NT, Qld, WA: Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Central Arnhem (CA), Carnarvon (CAR), Central Kimberley (CK), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Coolgardie (COO), Central Ranges (CR), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Desert Uplands (DEU), Dampierland (DL), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Gascoyne (GAS), Gibson Desert (GD), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Great Sandy Desert (GSD), Gulf Plains (GUP), Great Victoria Desert (GVD), Hampton (HAM), Little Sandy Desert (LSD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Murchison (MUR), Northern Kimberley (NK), NSW North Coast (NNC), Nullarbor (NUL), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), Pilbara (PIL), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Tanami (TAN), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Wet Tropics (WT), Yalgoo (YAL)

IMCRA

Cocos (Keeling) Island Province (22), Christmas Island Province (23)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Afrotropical Region

Australian Region

  • Australia
    • Northern Territory: N coastal
    • Queensland: N Gulf, NE coastal
    • Western Australia: N coastal, NW coastal, W plateau
  • Indonesia
    • Irian Jaya
  • Papua New Guinea

Nearctic Region

Neotropical Region

Oriental Region

  • Bangladesh
  • Bhutan
  • Brunei
  • Burma (= Myanmar)
  • China (People's Republic)
  • Christmas Island (Aust. Terr.)
  • Cocos (Keeling) Islands (Aust. Terr.)
  • Hong Kong
  • India
  • Indonesia
  • Kampuchea (Cambodia)
  • Laos
  • Malaysia
  • Nepal
  • Philippines
  • Singapore
  • Taiwan
  • Thailand
  • Vietnam

Palaearctic Region

Ecological Descriptors

Broadleaf thicket/shrubland, human habitation, lignum or cane grass swamp, open freshwater wetland, paperbark woodland, tropical eucalypt, tussock grassland.

 

Nomenclatural details of nominate taxon, not in Australia

Hirundo rustica Linnaeus, C. (1758). Systema Naturae per Regna Tria Naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Editio decima, reformata. Holmiae : Laurentii Salvii Vol. 1 iv 823 pp. [191].

 

History of changes

Note that this list may be incomplete for dates prior to September 2013.
Published As part of group Action Date Action Type Compiler(s)
12-Feb-2010 (import)