Is there a Spanish word for "swallow", the bird that is?

Question

When the swallows come back to Capistrano is the title of a song that refers to the annual migration of swallows to the mission at Capistrano in California. I'd love to know the Spanish word for swallow.

Answer 1

Google search for ‘spanish bird names’ led to a pdf file (www.stanislausbirds.org/Records/Checklists/spanish-bird-names.pdf)- on www.stanislausbirds.org

The file lists 6 types of swallows and gives their Spanish names. All 6 start with ‘golondrina’ and are followed by specific type names as follows: bicolour, verdemar, aliaserrada, ribereña, risquera, tijereta.

Tree swallow ‘golondrina biclolor” or barn swallow ‘golondrina tijereta’ sounds like what you are looking for.

Answer 2

swallow = golondrina

I should have known that. La Golondrina is a song that my mother used to sing back in the thirties. And I had no idea that it meant "the swallow". thanks - jamesbhill, DIC 6, 2009