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White-rumped Swallow

Tachycineta leucorrhoa

Classification

Class
Aves

The white-rumped swallow (Tachycineta leucorrhoa) is a species of bird in the family Hirundinidae. First described and given its binomial name by French ornithologist Louis Pierre Vieillot in 1817, it was for many years considered a subspecies of the Chilean swallow. The species is monotypic with no known population variations.

Distribution

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Countries in the Picchu catalog
Brazil · 16,166Peru · 11