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Petrochelidon ariel · Family Hirundinidae

Petrochelidon ariel

Family Hirundinidae

Order
Passeriformes
Family
Hirundinidae
GBIF occurrence records
238,842
Countries and territories with records
8
Fairy Martin
Jim Bendon from Karratha, Australia · Petrochelidon ariel -Karratha, Pilbara, Western Australia, Australia -two-8 (1).jpg · CC BY-SA 2.0 · Jim Bendon from Karratha, Australia · CC BY-SA 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons · Recordings may be trimmed and re-encoded; photos are cropped and resized.

About this species

This species has 238,842 occurrence records from 8 countries and territories (GBIF, 21 October 2026). Australia accounts for 99.9% of the records; no other country or territory reaches 1%. In Australia, this species accounts for 0.22% of all bird records in GBIF.

The scientific name Petrochelidon ariel combines the genus name Petrochelidon with the species epithet ariel. The Warbla app catalog lists 9 species of the genus Petrochelidon; apart from this one, those with the most GBIF records are Petrochelidon pyrrhonota, Petrochelidon nigricans and Petrochelidon fulva.

The catalog has GBIF record counts for 83 species of the family Hirundinidae. This species ranks 19th among them; the family’s most-recorded species is Hirundo rustica. Its record count is 39.8% of the family average (600,011). The family Hirundinidae belongs to the order Passeriformes, which has 6,193 species in the Warbla app catalog.

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