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Tahiti Swallow
Hirundo tahitica · Family Hirundinidae
Hirundo tahitica
Family Hirundinidae
- Order
- Passeriformes
- Family
- Hirundinidae
- GBIF occurrence records
- 50,409
- Countries and territories with records
- 23
About this species
This species has 50,409 occurrence records from 23 countries and territories (GBIF, 21 October 2026). Taiwan accounts for 96% of the records; no other country or territory reaches 1%. In Taiwan, this species accounts for 0.23% of all bird records in GBIF.
The scientific name Hirundo tahitica combines the genus name Hirundo with the species epithet tahitica. 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 neoxena and Hirundo javanica.
The catalog has GBIF record counts for 83 species of the family Hirundinidae. This species ranks 39th among them; the family’s most-recorded species is Hirundo rustica. Its record count is 8.4% of the family average (600,011). The family Hirundinidae belongs to the order Passeriformes, which has 6,193 species in the Warbla app catalog.