English: Common House Martin, House Martin
Russian: Городская ласточка
Mongolian:
Хүрээний хараацай
German: Mehlschwalbe
French: Hirondelle de Fenetre
Japanese: ニシイワツバメ (Nishi-iwa-tsubame)
Body length: 13-14 cm
Wing span: 26-29 cm
Breeding visitor
Breeding season: May-August
Egg number: 4-5 (occasionally 2-6)
Egg colour: Slightly glossy white with fine
red spots.
Brood:
1 per year
Global status: Least concern
Regional status: Least concern
Food: Flying insects.
Habitat: Suitable breeding habits consist of
open country, the nest being stuck to rock surfaces of outcrops or cliffs,
under overhangs or on outer walls of buildings. Both parents build their
own-nest with mud on cliffs, under bridges, on roofs of buildings and other
man-made structure in towns, cities, forest steppe, mountain steppe, and river
valleys.