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Hirundo neoxena · Family Hirundinidae
Hirundo neoxena
Family Hirundinidae
- Order
- Passeriformes
- Family
- Hirundinidae
- GBIF occurrence records
- 1,903,835
- Countries and territories with records
- 9
About this species
This species has 1,903,835 occurrence records from 9 countries and territories (GBIF, 21 October 2026). Most records come from Australia (87.9%) and New Zealand (12%); together they account for 99.9% of the total. In Australia, this species accounts for 1.5% of all bird records in GBIF.
The scientific name Hirundo neoxena combines the genus name Hirundo with the species epithet neoxena. The Warbla app catalog lists 16 species of the genus Hirundo; apart from this one, those with the most GBIF records are Hirundo rustica, Hirundo javanica and Hirundo smithii.
The catalog has GBIF record counts for 83 species of the family Hirundinidae. This species ranks 8th among them; the family’s most-recorded species is Hirundo rustica. Its record count is 3.2 times the family average (600,011). The family Hirundinidae belongs to the order Passeriformes, which has 6,193 species in the Warbla app catalog.