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Tachycineta cyaneoviridis

[edit] Identification

• Upperparts and cap are a dark bluish-green
• Steel-blue wings
• White chin, throat and underparts
• Deeply forked tail
• Black bill, legs and feet

[edit] Distribution

Pine forests of the northern Bahamas; winters in the Bahamas and eastern Cuba

[edit] Taxonomy

Monotypic^[1]

[edit] Habitat

Pine forests.

[edit] Behaviour

[edit] Diet

The diet includes insects.

[edit] Breeding

They nest in old woodpecker holes using pine needles, she-oak twigs, and grass to make the nest, lined with feathers. Three eggs are laid and incubated for 15 days; the fledging period is roughly 22 days.

[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. Spreadsheet available at http://www.birds.cornell.edu/clementschecklist.
2. Whatbird
3. Wikipedia

• List of references

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