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Aeronautes saxatalis

Photo by Fulmar.
Photo taken: Palos Verdes Peninsula, near Los Angeles, California, USA.

Photo by Greg Lavaty
Big Bend National Park, Texas, January 2006

[edit] Identification

16.5cm. White throat patch, which extends down to the belly, black upperparts, belly, and sides of the breast, grey underwings.

[edit] Distribution

North America, south to western Honduras.

[edit] Taxonomy

[edit] Habitat

Canyons, foothills, and mountains.

[edit] Behaviour

They sleep in roosts of hundreds of birds, typically in larger cavities in cliffs and large rocks.

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