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Photo by Tom Tarrant
Dayboro, South East Queensland, Australia, September 2003

Hirundo ariel

Identification

Watercourses of mainland Australia; winters to New Guinea.

Juvenile being fed
Photo by fthsm
Olympic Park, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia January 2009

Previously included in genus Hirundo.

This is a monotypic species^[1].

Arid scrubland, near watercourse.

These birds build a tubular mud nest under a horizontal surface.

Clements, J. F., T. S. Schulenberg, M. J. Iliff, B.L. Sullivan, C. L. Wood, and D. Roberson. 2012. The eBird/Clements Checklist of Birds of the World. 6th ed., with updates to October 2012. Ithaca: Cornell Univ. Press. ISBN 978-0801445019. Spreadsheet available at http://www.birds.cornell.edu/clementschecklist/downloadable-clements-checklist
Avibase

BirdForum Opus contributors. (2024) Fairy Martin. In: BirdForum, the forum for wild birds and birding. Retrieved 18 September 2024 from https://www.birdforum.net/opus/Fairy_Martin

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 Previously included in genus [[:Category:Hirundo|''Hirundo'']].
-This is a [[Dictionary_M-S#M|monotypic]] species<sup>[[#References|[1]]]</sup>.
+This is a [[Dictionary_M-O#M|monotypic]] species<sup>[[#References|[1]]]</sup>.
 ==Habitat==
 Arid scrubland, near watercourse.