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<span style="display: inline-block;">[[File:31EVO Desktop.png|100px]]</span> '''''[[Delichon]]''''' is a [[genus]] of birds in the [[swallow]] family containing four [[species]] named as house martins. These are chunky, bull-headed and short-tailed birds, blackish-blue above, with a white rump and white or grey underparts. They have feathering on their toes and [[tarsus (skeleton)|tarsi]]. They breed in Europe, Asia and the mountains of [[North Africa]]. The [[Common house martin|common]] ''(example pictured)'', [[Siberian house martin|Siberian]] and [[Asian house martin]]s all<!-- reworded to conform with mos:seaofblue --> [[bird migration|migrate]] south in winter, while the [[Nepal house martin]] is resident in the [[Himalayas]]. House martins nest in colonies on cliffs or buildings. Both parents build the lined mud nest, [[Egg incubation|incubate]] the three or four <!-- conform with sourced values in article body, which appear in cited turner source on pages 228, 231, and 233 (though first clutch of common house martin is typically four or five eggs) --> white [[bird egg|eggs]] of a typical [[clutch (eggs)|clutch]]<!-- reworded to conform with character limit and mos:egg --> and feed the chicks. Aerial hunters of small insects, they may be<!-- reworded to conform with character limit --> caught by fast<!-- removed "-flying" to conform with character limit, as fast birds are presumably fast during flight --> [[bird of prey<!-- conform with wp:mpnoredirect -->|birds of prey]] and may carry [[flea]]s or other [[parasitism|parasites]]. None of the species are considered [[threatened species|threatened]], although common house martin numbers have declined in parts of Europe due to <!-- removed "factors including" to conform with character limit --> poor weather, poisoning by [[pesticide]]s and nest-site competition with [[house sparrow]]s<!-- reworded to conform with character limit -->. {{TFAFULL|Delichon|Delichon}}▼