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Tachycineta albiventer
The adult White-winged Swallow is 13.2 cm long and weighs 17 g. It has iridescent blue-green upperparts, white underparts and rump, and white edgings to the secondary flight feathers. The sexes are similar, but juvenile plumage is grey brown above apart from the white rump. [Wikipedia]
Is a resident breeding bird in tropical South America from Colombia, Venezuela and Trinidad south to northern Argentina.
Found near a lake. [Portuguese] Encontrada perto de um lago. Andorinha-do-rio [Brazil]
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