Bird

Barn Swallow

Hirundo rustica

A summer resident that nests in Virginia. Found in all 133 counties and cities, across 7 habitats.

Here: Summer
Nesting: Nests here
Range: All 133 counties and cities
Habitats: 7

Male Barn Swallow, whole bird — **Male**. (c) SteveM4560, some rights reserved (CC BY). CC BY 4.0. iNaturalist photo 375110519. Source-provided large resize; no crop or image edits.

At a glance

Group: Birds
Here: Summer
Nesting: Nests here
Range: All 133 counties and cities
Habitats: 7
Habitat models: Summer

Where it lives

The places its habitat model includes. It is not found everywhere a habitat occurs.

Habitats in Virginia 7

Each habitat page lists the plants and wildlife also found there.

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Coastal dunes and beaches

Open sand of beaches, dunes and the hollows between them.

SummerUnconsolidated Shore (Beach/Dune); Atlantic and Gulf Coastal Plain Interdunal Wetland

Disturbed and introduced wetlands

Wet ground taken over by weedy or introduced plants after disturbance, such as common reed, Chinese tallow or tamarisk stands; the upland counterpart is roadsides, fields and disturbed ground.

Summer

Ponds, lakes and their shores

Still water and its edges: ponds, lakes, millponds and reservoirs.

SummerOpen Water (Fresh)

Salt and brackish marshes

Coastal marshes flooded by salty or brackish tides.

SummerAtlantic Coastal Plain Embayed Region Tidal Salt and Brackish Marsh; Atlantic Coastal Plain Northern Tidal Salt Marsh

Sounds, bays and tidal flats

Salt and brackish open water of sounds, bays and estuaries, with the mud and sand flats and seagrass beds that tides cover and uncover; the vegetated marsh is salt and brackish marshes.

SummerOpen Water (Brackish/Salt)

SummerOnly within 500 m of water.Successional Shrub/Scrub (Other); Harvested Forest - Shrub RegenerationPaul Sawyier, Landscape: young trees and shrubs in autumn colour crowding the rocky edge of a Kentucky woodland. Regional view: the painting does not name the exact site. Shown: Kentucky (Paul Sawyier, Landscape; Johnson Collection), a neighboring state.Landscape label QS:Lit,"Paesaggio" label QS:Lhu,"Tájkép" label QS:Lca,"Paisatge" label QS:Lde,"Landschaft" label QS:Lpt,"Paisagem" label QS:Lda,"Landskab" label QS:Lsl,"Krajina" label QS:Lja,"風景" label QS:Lsv,"Landskap" label QS:Lpl,"Pejzaż" label QS:Luk,"Пейзаж" label QS:Lnl,"Landschap" label QS:Les,"Paisaje" label QS:Ltr,"Manzara" label QS:Lfi,"Maisema" label QS:Len,"Landscape" label QS:Lfr,"Paysage" label QS:Lmk,"Предел" label QS:Lru,"Пейзаж", Paul Sawyier, c. 1890-1917. Public domain. Source record.

SummerOnly within 500 m of water.Developed, Open Space; Cultivated Cropland; Pasture/Hay; Disturbed/Successional - Grass/Forb Regeneration; Utility Swath - Herbaceous; Disturbed, Non-specific; Ruderal Upland - Old FieldLyell Carr, Black Mountain: a pasture and hayfield with a log barn, rail fence and grazing cow below the Black Mountains. Shown: Black Mountain, North Carolina (Lyell E. Carr), a neighboring state.Black Mountainlabel QS:Len,"Black Mountain", Lyell Carr, c. 1890-1912. Public domain. Source record.

Other habitats in its models (26)

Land cover, or classes with no habitat page in Virginia. Those recorded in Virginia first, the rest by region.

Elsewhere in the South (8)

Atlantic Coastal Plain Central Salt and Brackish Tidal Marsh Summer.
Atlantic Coastal Plain Indian River Lagoon Tidal Marsh Summer.
Atlantic Coastal Plain Southern Dune and Maritime Grassland Summer.
East Gulf Coastal Plain Dune and Coastal Grassland Summer.
Florida Big Bend Salt-Brackish Tidal Marsh Summer.
Mississippi Sound Salt and Brackish Tidal Marsh Summer.
South Florida Everglades Sawgrass Marsh Summer.
Southwest Florida Dune and Coastal Grassland Summer.

Land cover and other classes (18)

Barren Land Summer, only within 500 m of water.
Developed, High Intensity Summer, only within 500 m of water.
Developed, Low Intensity Summer, only within 500 m of water.
Developed, Medium Intensity Summer, only within 500 m of water.
Harvested Forest - Grass/Forb Regeneration Summer, only within 500 m of water.
Introduced Upland Vegetation - Annual Grassland Summer, only within 500 m of water.
Introduced Upland Vegetation - Forbland Summer, only within 500 m of water.
Introduced Upland Vegetation - Perennial Grassland Summer, only within 500 m of water.
Introduced Upland Vegetation - Perennial Grassland and Forbland Summer, only within 500 m of water.
Open Water (Aquaculture) Summer.
Quarries, Mines, Gravel Pits and Oil Wells Summer, only within 500 m of water.
Recently Burned Summer, only within 500 m of water.
Recently Burned Forest Summer, only within 500 m of water.
Recently Burned Grassland Summer, only within 500 m of water.
Recently Burned Shrubland Summer, only within 500 m of water.
Recently Logged Areas Summer, only within 500 m of water.
Unconsolidated Shore Summer.
Unconsolidated Shore (Lake/River/Pond) Summer.

All habitats

Seasons in Virginia

Summer: nests here, in all 133 counties and cities.

County or city

Also found in its main habitats

Its main habitats in Virginia, by how much of its habitat model each one is, with the birds most characteristic of each and the plants that grow wild there. Shared habitat, not food.