Recently, in the group “Lovers of Wild Nature” with over 326,000 members, a user named P.H.Đ shared a video capturing a strange bird with its unique nest on electrical cables.
The video immediately attracted a lot of comments and thousands of likes, with many questions about this bird species.
The strange bird nesting on electrical cables
What species of bird is this?
The bird featured in the video is a crowned swallow (Scientific name: Hemiprocne coronata), a species found in India, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Myanmar, southern China, Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, and Thailand.
Crowned Swallow. Photo: Alladin
The crowned swallow uses saliva and mud to build its nest high up, with each female typically laying only one egg in her small nest from late December to April of the following year.
The mother and father take turns incubating the egg until it hatches. The crowned swallow is a biologically dispersive species—meaning they will move to a different location to lay eggs in the next breeding season.
In terms of rarity, the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) classifies them as Least Concern due to their relatively stable population.
