From Opus

Photo by Arthur Grosset

Atticora melanoleuca

[edit] Identification

• Tail long and deeply forked
• Shiny blue-black above
• White throat, chest and belly
• Narrow black band separating chest and throat (brown in juvenile, which however has a deeper forked tail than Bank Swallow)
• Black vent-area (brown in juvenile)
• Underside of wings medium brown (coverts) or pale brown (flight feathers)

[edit] Distribution

Brazil, Colombia, French Guiana, Guyana, Suriname, and Venezuela.

[edit] Taxonomy

Monotypic.

SACC has recently moved this species to genus Pygochelidon; Opus is waiting to see what the world-wide checklists do.

[edit] Habitat

Near rivers with rapids and boulders.

[edit] Behaviour

[edit] Diet

The diet includes blackflies.

[edit] Breeding

It nests in crevices in rocks.

[edit] References

1. Clements, James F. 2007. The Clements Checklist of Birds of the World. 6th ed., with updates to October 2007. Ithaca: Cornell University Press. ISBN 9780801445019
2. Restall et al. 2006. Birds of Northern South America. Yale University Press. ISBN 9780300124156
3. SACC proposal to change the genus of some swallows

• List of references

Arthur Grosset

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