White-winged swallow
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at rest in the Llanos, Venezuela | |
Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Aves |
Order: | Passeriformes |
Family: | Hirundinidae |
Genus: | Tachycineta |
Species: | T. albiventer
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Binomial name | |
Tachycineta albiventer (Boddaert, 1783)
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The white-winged swallow (Tachycineta albiventer) is a resident breeding swallow in tropical South America from Colombia, Venezuela, Trinidad, and Argentina. It is not found west of the Andes. This swallow is largely non-migratory.
Taxonomy
The white-winged swallow was described by the French polymath
Description
The adult white-winged swallow is 14 cm (5.5 in) long and weighs 14–17 g (0.49–0.60 oz). It has iridescent blue-green upperparts, white underparts and rump, and white edgings to the secondary flight feathers. The wings are otherwise black, along with the tail. It has dark brown eyes and a black bill and legs. The sexes are similar, although it is noted that the females have slightly less white on the wing. Juveniles have grayer underparts and are duller in general when compared to the adults. The juvenile also has less white on the wing.[8][9][10]
White-winged swallows can be distinguished from the similar mangrove swallow by the lack of a white line above its lores and a greater amount of white on its wings.[10]
The call is a harsh chirrup or a repeated, rising, buzz-like zweeed.[9] The alarm call is short and harsh.[8][10]
Distribution and habitat
The white-winged swallow is native to Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Paraguay, Peru, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago, and Venezuela. Occasional vagrants reach Panama.[1][11] They are usually not found on the Pacific coast, especially in the southern portion of South America.[8][9]
The species is usually found in or near lowland areas along bodies of water such as rivers or lakes, at elevations of about 500 m (1,600 ft).[9]
It is resident in most of its range, although in the most southerly part it is migratory. In Brazil and Argentina, it is only present from approximately mid-September to mid-April. Where this population winters is not well known, but it is most likely in the Guianas, Venezuela, and Colombia.[10]
Behaviour and ecology
Breeding
The white-winged swallow builds a
Food and feeding
The white-winged swallow feeds primarily in flight at a low altitude, catching flying insects.
Conservation
The white-winged swallow is classified as
References
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- ^ Buffon, Georges-Louis Leclerc de (1780). "L'hirondelle à ventre blanc, de Cayenne". Histoire Naturelle des Oiseaux (in French). Vol. 12. Paris: De L'Imprimerie Royale. pp. 451–452.
- Daubenton, Louis-Jean-Marie (1765–1783). "Hirondelle à ventre blanc, de Cayenne". Planches Enluminées D'Histoire Naturelle. Vol. 6. Paris: De L'Imprimerie Royale. Plate 546 Fig. 2.
- ^ Boddaert, Pieter (1783). Table des planches enluminéez d'histoire naturelle de M. D'Aubenton : avec les denominations de M.M. de Buffon, Brisson, Edwards, Linnaeus et Latham, precedé d'une notice des principaux ouvrages zoologiques enluminés (in French). Utrecht. p. 32, Number 546 Fig. 2.
- ^ Cabanis, Jean (1850–1851). Museum Heineanum : Verzeichniss der ornithologischen Sammlung des Oberamtmann Ferdinand Heine, auf Gut St. Burchard vor Halberstadt (in German and Latin). Vol. 1. Halberstadt: R. Frantz. p. 48.
- ^ a b Gill, Frank; Donsker, David, eds. (2019). "Swallows". World Bird List Version 9.2. International Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved 27 August 2019.
- ISBN 978-1-4081-2501-4.
- ^ . Retrieved 5 December 2016.
- ^ a b c d e f g Sedgwick, Carolyn. "Overview - White-winged Swallow (Tachycineta albiventer) - Neotropical Birds". Retrieved December 3, 2016.
- ^ ISBN 978-0-395-51174-9. p103–105
- ^ "White-winged Swallow - Tachycineta albiventer - Overview - Encyclopedia of Life". Retrieved December 4, 2016.
- ^ E.g. of Macrolobium sp. (Greeney & Merino M. 2006)
- ^ "White-winged Swallow (Tachycineta albiventer)". Retrieved December 4, 2016.
- DOI: 10.1642/0004-8038(2000)117[0847:FSSTTA]2.0.CO;2
- ffrench, Richard; O'Neill, John Patton & Eckelberry, Don R. (1991): A guide to the birds of Trinidad and Tobago (2nd edition). Comstock Publishing, Ithaca, N.Y.. ISBN 0-8014-9792-2
- Greeney, Harold F. & Merino M., Paúl A. (2006): Notes on breeding birds from the Cuyabeno Faunistic Reserve in northeastern Ecuador. Boletín de la Sociedad Antioqueña de Ornitología 16(2): 46–57. PDF fulltext
- Hilty, Steven L. (2003): Birds of Venezuela. ISBN 0-7136-6418-5