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Delichon urbica🐦

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SpeciesPasseriformesHirundinidae
Birds

🐦Common House Martin

Delichon urbicum (Linnaeus, 1758)

西方毛脚燕（学名：Delichon urbicum），为燕科毛脚燕属的鸟类。分布于欧洲、亚洲西部、从拉普兰、阿尔汉格尔斯克、伯朝拉、东南到米努辛斯克、法国、瑞士、澳大利亚、匈牙利、保加利亚、前苏联、意大利、巴尔干以及中国大陆的新疆等地，见于高山峡谷。该物种的模式产地在瑞典。

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Also called
house martin, House martin, House Martin, Northern House-martin
Conservation status
LCLeast concern

IUCN Red List assessment, 2024.

Population trendStable
Key measurements
Body mass
0.01 kg
Body length
not recorded
Shoulder height
not recorded
Top speed
not recorded
Bite force
not recorded
Maximum lifespan
15 years
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Facts and figures

Everything we know about the Common House Martin

Typical adult figures. Where a value is an estimate rather than a measurement, it says so.

Body mass
0.01 kg
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Figures vary

  • 0.01 kgAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Tail length
0.06 m
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Wing length
0.11 m
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Beak length
0.01 m
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Tarsus length
0.01 m
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Maximum lifespan
15 years
AnAge
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data quality: acceptable

Source: AnAge · AnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR) · CC BY 3.0

Trophic level
Carnivore
AVONET
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Habitat
Human Modified
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Lifestyle
Aerial
AVONET
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Volume l
0 Laverage
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Body mass at ~1.0 kg/L, the density of vertebrate tissue.

average = a mean across sexes or species in a group.

Not recorded for Common House Martin yet: body length, shoulder height, top speed, bite force.

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Family tree

  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. ›phylumChordata
  3. ›classAves
  4. ›orderPasseriformes
  5. ›familyHirundinidae
  6. ›genusDelichon
  7. ›speciesDelichon urbicum
Full lineage
  1. classBirds · Aves
  2. orderPerching birds · Passeriformes
  3. familyHirundinidae
  4. genusDelichon
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  1. kingdomMetazoa
  2. phylumChordata
  3. subphylumCraniata
  4. subphylumVertebrata
  5. superclassGnathostomata
  6. superclassSarcopterygii
  7. superclassTetrapoda
  8. orderSauria
  9. classBirds · Aves
  10. orderPerching birds · Passeriformes
  11. familyHirundinidae
  12. genusDelichon
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hussvala (sv), Mehlschwalbe (de), городская ласточка (ru), oreneta cuablanca (ca), jiřička obecná (cs), Bysvale (da) … and 27 more languages
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