Birds · An occasional visitor rather than a resident.

Welcome Swallow

Hirundo neoxena

First heard here 20 Sept · last heard 22 Oct · 6 days in the last year · 7 detections on record

Hear it

A clear recording call, song, recorded in Australia

Marc Anderson, xeno-canto, CC BY-NC-ND 4.0. Trimmed to 20 seconds.

Heard here by the park sensor, 96% match

Raw and a bit distant; the bird was somewhere in the park, not next to the microphone.

What to look for

The welcome swallow is a small passerine bird in the swallow family Hirundinidae that is native to Australia and nearby islands. It has self-introduced into New Zealand in the middle of the twentieth century. It is very similar to the Pacific swallow with which it is often considered conspecific.

Read more on Wikipedia (Welcome swallow)

When it has been heard

Detections per day, last 30 days. Heard on 3 of them.

Busiest day so far: Sunday 20 September, 2 detections between 5:45am and 5:26pm.

Time of day

When it calls, last 30 days. Darker is busier.

Busiest around 12pm. From 6 days with hourly counts.

Day	Heard	First	Last	Peak confidence
22 Oct	1	11:53am	11:53am	93%
19 Oct	1	12:06pm	12:06pm	91%
18 Oct	1	5:08pm	5:08pm	98%
28 Sept	1	12:08pm	12:08pm	80%
26 Sept	1	8:45am	8:45am	83%
20 Sept	2	5:45am	5:26pm	96%

Detections are automatic and can be wrong.