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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 ...
Tachycineta is a genus of birds in the swallow family Hirundinidae. There are nine described species all restricted to the Americas. These are slender swallows with forked tails. Most species have a metallic green back, green or blue head, and metallic blue or unglossed brown wings. All have pure white underparts, and four species have a white ...
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 Eurasian tree sparrow is rural in Europe, but is an urban bird in eastern Asia; in southern and central Asia, both Passer species may be found around towns and villages. [5] In parts of the Mediterranean, such as Italy, both the tree and the Italian or Spanish sparrows may be found in settlements. [ 29 ]
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The species was recorded at least six other times in the British Isles in the 1800s, and there are more recent records from Scotland in 2004 and the Azores in 2004 and 2011. [16] There is also a record of two birds from Stanley, Falkland Islands (Las Malvinas) in 2004, and multiple records from Alaska , including records from Saint Paul Island ...
The 82 species within the subfamily Hirundininae are further classified into three groupings: the mud nesters, basal relicts and core martins, with the violet-green swallow falling into the last group. [5] Violet-green swallows are one of 9 species of New World tree swallows within the genus Tachycineta.
The forest swallow (Atronanus fuliginosus) is a little-known species of swallow in the family Hirundinidae, found in Cameroon, Republic of the Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, and Nigeria. The species was previously placed in the genus Petrochelidon , within the ‘mud-nester’ clade of swallows, yet its plumage, morphology, and nesting ...