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White-winged Swallow

Tachycineta albiventer

Description:

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]

Habitat:

Is a resident breeding bird in tropical South America from Colombia, Venezuela and Trinidad south to northern Argentina.

Notes:

Found near a lake. [Portuguese] Encontrada perto de um lago. Andorinha-do-rio [Brazil]

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Macapá, Amapá, Brazil

Spotted on Mar 7, 2009
Submitted on Nov 23, 2012

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