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Violet-green swallow

Tachycineta thalassina

Photo by IsabellaFiers
Published on Project Noah
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Field Notes

Description:

Adults are velvet green on their upperparts with white underparts and a forked tail.
At this moment they were feeding their young in in a cavity of a tree.

Habitat:

Their breeding habitat is semi-open areas in western North America from Alaska to Mexico.

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Violet-green Swallow

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