Tawny-headed Swallow
A species of Tawny-headed Swallow Scientific name : Alopochelidon fucata Genus : Tawny-headed Swallow
Tawny-headed Swallow, A species of Tawny-headed Swallow
Botanical name: Alopochelidon fucata
Genus: Tawny-headed Swallow
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Description General Info
Description
This swallow is relatively small, usually measuring 12 centimetres (4.7 in) and weighing 13–15 grams (0.46–0.53 oz). It has a black bill that usually measures 6.6–8.1 millimetres (0.26–0.32 in). It has a mostly brownish-black crown, with tawny-rufous edges. It also has a tawny-rufous coloured forehead, eyebrow, and hindcrown, which transition into its cinnamon-buff ear coverts, sides of the head, throat, and breast. It has dark brown lores and brown irides. The rest of the upperparts are a gray-brown, with a paler rump. The wings and almost square tail are dark brown, and the underparts are a dull white with pale gray-brown sides. The juvenile can be differentiated by the fact that its head is more buff and less rufous and its feathers are tinged buff rather than rufous. The tawny-headed swallow makes use of a flight call described as a soft trilled treeeeb. 
Size
12 cm
Nest Placement
Cliff
Feeding Habits
Tawny-headed Swallow primarily feeds on insects, including beetles, flies, and hymenopterans. Tawny-headed Swallow often forage in pairs or small groups, sometimes forming large groups of up to 100 outside breeding season. Unique for often not mingling with other swallows, barring occasional sharing of feeding spaces with wintering barn swallows.
Dite type
Insectivorous
General Info
Feeding Habits
Bird food type
Distribution Area
This swallow is native to Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Paraguay, Peru, Uruguay, and Venezuela and vagrant to Chile and the Falkland Islands. The tawny-headed swallow is split up into 2 resident populations, one in southeast Venezuela, and the other in central and southern Brazil, eastern Bolivia, all of Paraguay except the Northwest portion of it, and northeast Argentina. It also occurs in Uruguay and part of central Argentina as a resident during the breeding season. It is not known where this population migrates, although there have been sightings of non-breeding tawny-headed swallows in eastern Colombia and southeastern Peru. This swallow can be found in open and mostly open tropical and subtropical areas, especially near small bodies of water, forest clearings near streams, and in pampas. It can also be found in wet or flooded areas of open grassland. It usually resides at altitudes up to 1,600 metres (5,200 ft).
Scientific Classification
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Chordates Class
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Perching birds Family
Swallows Genus
Tawny-headed Swallow Species
Tawny-headed Swallow 
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