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Pseudochelidon eurystomina

[edit] Identification

14 cm

• Mainly black with bluish-green gloss
• Green back
• Red eye, with a pink eye ring
• Broad orangey- red bill
• Square tail
  

The sexes are similar
Juveniles are dull sooty brown

[edit] Distribution

Western Africa: found in Equatorial Guinea, Congo, Zaire; winters in coastal Gabon

[edit] Taxonomy

Monotypic.

[edit] Habitat

Large forested rivers with islands with sandy shores for breeding and coastal savanna.

[edit] Behaviour

[edit] Breeding

It breeds in large colonies of up to 800 birds. The twig and leaf-lined nest is at the end of a long excavated tunnel in a sand bank. Two to four unspotted white eggs are laid.

[edit] Diet

The diet includes mainly winged ants and other insects.

[edit] References

1. Clements, JF. 2008. The Clements Checklist of Birds of the World. 6th ed., with updates to December 2008. Ithaca: Cornell Univ. Press. ISBN 978-0801445019.
2. Avibase
3. Wikipedia

• List of references

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