Violet-green Swallow (Tachycineta thalassina)

Family
Hirundinidae (Swallows And Martins)

Size
11.50 - 14 cm

First Described (Guide)
(Swainson, 1827)

Habitat
Temperate forest. From sea-level - 4,000 m.

Range (Guide)

Canada, Colombia, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, USA (B).

Population
Estimated population is 11,000,000 (2010).

Status LC
For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.

Voice
Xeno-Canto Sound Files (more (72)...)

Violet-green Swallow (Tachycineta thalassina) [XC322926]
by Peter Boesman from Bear Creek, Seward, Kenai Peninsula Borough, Alaska, United States (flight call)

Violet-green Swallow (Tachycineta thalassina) [XC716054]
by Nicolas Martinez from Morro Coast Audubon Society Sweet Springs Nature Preserve (near Baywood-Los Osos), San Luis Obispo County, California, United States (call, cheet)

Subspecies
Closely related to Golden Swallow (Tachycineta euchrysea) and Bahama Swallow (Tachycineta cyaneoviridis). Population from Alaska and Canada south to Arizona, New Mexico and Baja California sometimes treated as separate subspecies lepida.

The following 2 subspecies are recognised:

thalassina (Swainson, 1827) - Central Alaska and western Canada (southern from northern Yukon, south-western Mackenzie, northern British Columbia, west-central Alberta, south-western Saskatchewan) southern in western USA (east to western North Dakota and north-western Nebraska) to southern Arizona and southern New Mexico, and Mexico (south to central Baja California, also on plateau south to Oaxaca and Veracruz). Winters Baja California south to Costa Rica.
brachyptera Brewster, 1902 - North-western Mexico (central and southern Baja California, southern Sonora).

References
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Files:

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