Western House Martin

Delichon urbicum

Western House Martin photographed by Jess
Preston · July 25, 2026

When to look

Reported most in May, across 2.1M open records.

Records by month. January, 11,067 records. February, 24,252 records. March, 65,042 records. April, 229,867 records. May, 532,561 records. June, 344,562 records. July, 317,524 records. August, 321,677 records. September, 186,697 records. October, 35,468 records. November, 6,866 records. December, 5,786 records.

Occurrence data from GBIF (incl. the eBird Observation Dataset, © Cornell Lab of Ornithology, CC BY 4.0). Descriptive, not predictive.

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