Red-rumped Swallow
Amursvale
Hirundo daurica

Red-rumped Swallows are true rarities in Norway with only 21 records up to and including 2001. However, during the last years, there have been about five annual records. This individual, photographed outside Bergen in Hordaland county, was the sixth in Norway during the spring of 2004. Here it is resting during a shower of rain on 14 May 2004.