Wire-tailed swallow

Weight

12.4 g – 12.8 g

Length

Not recorded

Lifespan

Not recorded

Diet

Invertivore

Main food

Not recorded

Habitat

shrubland

Egg incubation

14.5 days

Young per litter or clutch

4

Litters or clutches a year

2

Lifestyle

Aerial

Migration

Partial

Conservation status

Not recorded

Countries on record

Not recorded

Not recorded

No conservation assessment is recorded for this species in our sources. That is not the same as being safe: it has not been matched to an assessment.

1. kingdomAnimalia
2. phylumChordata
3. classAves
4. orderPasseriformes
5. familyHirundinidae
6. genusHirundo
7. SpeciesHirundo smithii Leach, 1818

Catalogue of Life

LC, Least Concern

Barn swallow

Hirundo rustica

Hirundinidae

T

Tahiti swallow

Hirundo tahitica

HirundinidaeNo free photo yet

E

Ethopian swallow

Hirundo aethiopica

HirundinidaeNo free photo yet

R

Red-chested swallow

Hirundo lucida

HirundinidaeNo free photo yet

W

Welcome swallow

Hirundo neoxena

HirundinidaeNo free photo yet

A

Angola swallow

Hirundo angolensis

HirundinidaeNo free photo yet

CompareWire-tailed swallow vs Barn swallowWire-tailed swallow vs Tahiti swallowWire-tailed swallow vs Ethopian swallowWire-tailed swallow vs Red-chested swallow

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@misc{wire_tailed_swallow_2026,
  title = {Wire-tailed swallow (Hirundo smithii)},
  author = {{CreatureData}},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://creaturedata.com/animals/wire-tailed-swallow},
  note = {Data as of 2026-11-11}
}