Cladus: Eukaryota Name Progne tapera (Linnaeus, 1766) Reference Systema Naturae ed.12 p.345 Vernacular names The Brown-chested Martin (Progne tapera) is a species of passerine bird in the swallow family. It is found in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Puerto Rico, Suriname, the United States, Uruguay, Venezuela, and is a vagrant to Chile and the Falkland Islands. Its natural habitats are dry savanna, subtropical or tropical seasonally wet or flooded lowland grassland, rivers, and heavily degraded former forest. It usually swoops at low heights, showing white on the sides of its tail, with wings bowed. It may dig burrows into banks to nest (or occasionally in snags) or sometimes use old hornero nests.[2] ^ BirdLife International 2009. Progne tapera. 2010 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2010.1 Downloaded on 21 March 2010.
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