American cliff swallow

English

American cliff swallow

Noun

American cliff swallow (plural American cliff swallows)

1. Petrochelidon pyrrhonota, a member of the passerine bird family Hirundinidae.
   • 2018, Menno Schilthuizen, “Darwin comes to town”, in The Guardian‎^[1]:

     Researchers in the US found that the wingspan of American cliff swallows, which took up the habit of colonising concrete highway bridges in the 1980s, had decreased by about two millimetres a decade since then.

Translations

Petrochelidon pyrrhonota

• Czech: please add this translation if you can
• Danish: please add this translation if you can
• Dutch: Amerikaanse klifzwaluw (nl) f
• Finnish: amerikanpääsky (fi)
• French: hirondelle à front blanc f
• German: Fahlstirnschwalbe f
• Japanese: please add this translation if you can
• Polish: jaskółka rdzawoszyja f
• Portuguese: andorinha-de-dorso-acanelado f
• Russian: белоло́бая го́рная ла́сточка f (belolóbaja górnaja lástočka), белоло́бая ла́сточка f (belolóbaja lástočka)
• Slovak: please add this translation if you can
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• Swedish: stensvala (sv) c
• Ukrainian: please add this translation if you can

References

• American cliff swallow on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Petrochelidon pyrrhonota on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Petrochelidon pyrrhonota on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons