White-rumped Swallow

Taxobox
name = White-rumped Swallow


status = LC | status_system = IUCN3.1
status_ref=BirdLife International 2004. [http://www.iucnredlist.org/search/details.php/52132/all "Tachycineta leucorrhoa"] . [http://www.iucnredlist.org 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. ] Downloaded on 27 July 2007.]
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Aves
ordo = Passeriformes
familia = Hirundinidae
genus = "Tachycineta"
species = "T. leucorrhoa"
binomial = "Tachycineta leucorrhoa"
binomial_authority = (Vieillot, 1817, Paraguay)
synonyms = 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".fr icon Vieillot, Louis Jean Pierre (1817): "Nouvelle Dictionnaire d'Histoire Naturelle" nouvelle édition, 14, 519.]

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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