welcome swallow with red feathers on the forehead, neck, and chest, and it is a very festive bird !

welcome swallow with red feathers on the forehead, neck, and chest, and it is a very festive bird !
- telephoto camera captures welcome swallows
-not far away, a pair of swallows rested on a wooden pile
-the welcome swallow ( Hirundo neoxena) it is a species native to Australia and nearby islands
-they came to New Zealand on the wng from Australia in the 1950s
-and made their home
-they can be found in open country around coasts, riverbeds, lakes and ponds
-welcome swallow are small fast -flying birds
-they can forage for food and drinkng water while flying
-length: 13cm - 15cm, weight: 10g - 20g, wingspan: 30cm -33cm
-lifespan 3 - 6 years
-welcome swallows like to live not to far away from humans
- they often make nets in abandoned storage house, warehouse and under bridges
- and often apper in the morning and dusk
- they feed on wide varity on insects
- using their acrobatic flying skills and they can catch prey in fright
- welcome swallow feed on such as blowfies, grasshoppers, crickets, spiders, beetlres
- and sometimes eat aquatic insects are caught from the surface of streams and ponds
- they are a beneficial bird and a protected bird in the country
- there is a also a very interesting story here
- when the sailors saw welcome swallows on the ship or boat
- they knew they were not far from land
-because of red feathers on its forehed, neck, and chest
- so their name is called welcome swallow