American cliff swallow en · NOUN
Meanings
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Petrochelidon pyrrhonota, a member of the passerine bird family Hirundinidae.
Researchers in the US found that the wingspan of American cliff swallows, which took up the habit of colonising concrete highway bridges in the 1980s, had decreased by about two millimetres a decade since then.
2018, Menno Schilthuizen, “Darwin comes to town”, in The Guardian:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
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| American cliff swallows | Number=Plur | lexicographic |
Translations (11)
ja 三色燕 (Petrochelidon pyrrhonota) · ru белоло́бая го́рная ла́сточка (Petrochelidon pyrrhonota) · fr hirondelle à front blanc (Petrochelidon pyrrhonota) · sv stensvala (Petrochelidon pyrrhonota) · pl jaskółka rdzawoszyja (Petrochelidon pyrrhonota) · nl Amerikaanse klifzwaluw (Petrochelidon pyrrhonota) · ru белоло́бая ла́сточка (Petrochelidon pyrrhonota) · pt andorinha-de-dorso-acanelado (Petrochelidon pyrrhonota) · fi amerikanpääsky (Petrochelidon pyrrhonota) · de Fahlstirnschwalbe (Petrochelidon pyrrhonota) · ko 삼색제비 (Petrochelidon pyrrhonota)