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Photo by Pantanal1
Photo taken: Pantanal, Mato Grosso, Brazil

Tachycineta albiventer

[edit] Identification

13.2 cm. Iridescent blue-green upperparts, white underparts and rump, white edgings to the secondary flight feathers. The sexes are similar; juvenile plumage is grey brown above apart from the white rump.

[edit] Distribution

From Colombia and Trinidad through South America east of the Andes to northern Argentina. Vagrant or rare in Panama.

[edit] Taxonomy

This is a monotypic species. Its closest relative seems to be Mangrove Swallow.

[edit] Habitat

Near water.

[edit] Behaviour

The diet includes flying insects.

Its nest is cup shaped, lined with other birds' feathers and some seed down in a tree hole, between boulders or in man-made structures. 3-6 white eggs are laid.

[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. [ SACC baseline] read September 2009

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