Tawny-headed Swallow

Tawny-headed Swallow
Conservation status
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Hirundinidae
Subfamily: Hirundininae
Genus: Alopochelidon
Ridgway, 1903
Species: A. fucata
Binomial name
Alopochelidon fucata
(Temminck, 1822)

The Tawny-headed Swallow (Alopochelidon fucata) is a species of bird in the Hirundinidae family. It is monotypic within the genus Alopochelidon.

It is found in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Falkland Islands, Paraguay, Peru, Uruguay, and Venezuela.

Its natural habitats are dry savanna and subtropical or tropical seasonally wet or flooded lowland grassland.

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