White-rumped Swallow
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| Tachycineta leucorrhoa (Vieillot, 1817, Paraguay) |
The White-rumped Swallow (Tachycineta leucorrhoa) is a species of bird in the Hirundinidae family. It was first formally described as Hirundo leucorrhoa by French ornithologist Louis Vieillot in 1817 in his Nouvelle Dictionnaire d'Histoire Naturelle.[2]
It is found in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Paraguay, Peru, and Uruguay. Its natural habitats are dry savanna, subtropical or tropical seasonally wet or flooded lowland grassland, pastureland, and heavily degraded former forest.
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- ^ BirdLife International 2004. Tachycineta leucorrhoa. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 27 July 2007.
- ^ (French) Vieillot, Louis Jean Pierre (1817): Nouvelle Dictionnaire d'Histoire Naturelle nouvelle édition, 14, 519.
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