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title: "Andorinha-das-chaminés"
description: "Hirundo rustica — Aves. The barn swallow (Hirundo rustica) is the most widespread species of swallow in the world, occurring on all continents, with vagrants reported even in Antarctica."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/pt/animal/barn-swallow
last_updated: 2026-09-20
---

# Andorinha-das-chaminés

> Hirundo rustica — Aves. The barn swallow (Hirundo rustica) is the most widespread species of swallow in the world, occurring on all continents, with vagrants reported even in Antarctica.

- Scientific name: *Hirundo rustica*
- Category: `birds` (Aves)
- Habitats: `urban` (Cidades e jardins), `farm` (Quinta)
- iNaturalist observations: 243021
- Wikidata: [Q25429](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q25429)
- iNaturalist taxon: [11901](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/11901)

## Names

- en: Barn Swallow
- de: Rauchschwalbe
- es: Golondrina tijereta
- fr: Hirondelle rustique
- nl: Boerenzwaluw
- pt: Andorinha-das-chaminés
- pl: Dymówka

## Countries with the most observations

US (73013), RU (21234), CA (15630), MX (12202), GB (8117), ES (7272), IT (6458), DE (6150), FR (5771), JP (5012), TW (3834), PT (3218)

## Summary

The barn swallow (Hirundo rustica) is the most widespread species of swallow in the world, occurring on all continents, with vagrants reported even in Antarctica. It is a distinctive passerine bird with blue upperparts and a long, deeply forked tail. In Anglophone Europe, it is just called the swallow; in northern Europe, it is the only member of family Hirundinidae called a "swallow" rather than a "martin".
There are eight subspecies of barn swallow, which breed across the Northern Hemisphere. Two subspecies (H. r. savignii and H. r. transitiva) have fairly restricted ranges in the Nile valley and eastern Mediterranean…

Text: Wikipedia (en), CC BY-SA 4.0 — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barn_swallow

## Photo

![Andorinha-das-chaminés](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/barn-swallow/medium.jpg)

Photo: Robbie Hannawacker · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/6487004

## Machine access

`GET https://animalchecklist.com/api/v1/animals/barn-swallow?lang=pt` — see [openapi.json](https://animalchecklist.com/openapi.json).