Fairy Martin: Dorsal

Class:

Animals (Animalia) - Chordates (Chordata) - Birds (Aves)

Order:

Perching Birds (Passeriformes)

Family:

Swallow (Hirundinidae) iNaturalist Observation

Species:

Fairy Martin (Petrochelidon ariel)

This Photo:

🔍Dorsal🔎

Thank you Antoni Camozzato & George Seagull (George_Seagull) for confirming the id of this species for us

General Species Information:
Found on Ellura (in the Murray Mallee, SA) and elsewhere
Fairly easy to differentiate between these and the Tree Martins. Tree Martins have a Dark Blue/Black Satin head, where as the Fairy Martins have a chestnut coloured head.

This species is classed as

RA (Rare)

in the Murray Mallee, SA, by DENR (Regional Species Status Assessments, July 2010)

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