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Tree swallow Adult in Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge in Queens, New York Conservation status Least Concern (IUCN 3.1) Scientific classification Domain: Eukaryota Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Aves Order: Passeriformes Family: Hirundinidae Genus: Tachycineta Species: T. bicolor Binomial name Tachycineta bicolor (Vieillot, 1808) Range of T. bicolor Breeding summer visitor Migration ...
Tree swallow: north-central Alaska and up to the tree line in Canada and as far south as Tennessee in the eastern part of its range, California and New Mexico in the west, and Kansas in the centre Tachycineta cyaneoviridis: Bahama swallow: northern Bahamas: Andros, Grand Bahama, Abaco, and New Providence Tachycineta thalassina: Violet-green swallow
A tree swallow attending its nest in a tree cavity. Swallows are excellent flyers and use these skills to feed and attract mates. Some species, such as the mangrove swallow, are territorial, whereas others are not and simply defend their nesting sites. In general, the male selects a nest site, and then attracts a female using song and flight ...
The genus name is the Latin word for a swallow. [3] Linnaeus included eight species in the genus and of these William Swainson designated the barn swallow ( Hirundo rustica ) as the type species . [ 4 ] [ 5 ]
It is the largest swallow in North America. Despite its name, the purple martin is not truly purple. The dark blackish-blue feathers have an iridescent sheen caused by the diffraction of incident light [ 2 ] giving them a bright blue to navy blue or deep purple appearance.
The barn swallow (Hirundo rustica) is the most widespread species of swallow in the world, occurring on all continents, with vagrants reported even in Antarctica. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] It is a distinctive passerine bird with blue upperparts and a long, deeply forked tail.
The notch in the tail of the violet-green swallow is slightly shallower than that of the tree swallow, but deeper than the relatively flat tail of the cliff swallow. Female in California, U.S. Violet-green swallows exhibit very little sexual dimorphism, with adult males simply showing brighter colours than adult females. Additionally, the white ...
Begging rate and intensity varied in response to recordings of (1) a tree swallow adult landing on a nestbox and calling and (2) a common grackle (Quiscalis quiscala), a nest predator, landing on a nestbox. Nestlings increased the rate and intensity of their begging responses to both swallow and grackle stimulus sounds as time without food ...