Pacific Swallow

Pacific Swallow is a small swallow 13 cm long that breeds in tropical southern Asia and the islands of the south Pacific. Notable features include a blue-black back and crown with browner wings and tail, a red face and throat and dusky underparts, and differs from the barn swallow and the closely related welcome swallow in its shorter, less forked tail. It is resident apart from some local seasonal movements, associated with coasts but increasingly spreading to forested uplands (Wikipedia, general species account). (Wikipedia, general species account).

It builds a neat cup-shaped nest of mud pellets collected in the beak, lined with softer material, under a cliff ledge or on a building, bridge or tunnel, and lays two or three eggs. The Pacific swallow was formally described and illustrated in 1789 by the Swedish naturalist Anders Sparrman based on a specimen collected on the Indonesian island of Java. The Pacific swallow builds a neat cup-shaped nest, constructed with mud pellets collected in the beak, under a cliff ledge or on man-made structures such as a building, bridge or tunnel. (Wikipedia, general species account).