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Progne tapera

Progne tapera fusca

Progne tapera fusca

Cladus: Eukaryota
Supergroup: Opisthokonta
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Cladus: Deuterostomia
Phylum: Chordata
Subphylum: Vertebrata
Infraphylum: Gnathostomata
Superclassis: Tetrapoda
Classis: Aves
Subclassis: Carinatae
Infraclassis: Neornithes
Parvclassis: Neognathae
Ordo: Passeriformes
Subordo: Passeri
Parvordo: Passerida
Superfamilia: Sylvioidea
Familia: Hirundinidae
Genus: Progne
Species: Progne tapera
Subspecies: P. t. fusca - P. t. tapera

Name

Progne tapera (Linnaeus, 1766)

Reference

Systema Naturae ed.12 p.345

Vernacular names
English: Brown-chested Martin
Português: Andorinha-do-campo

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]
References

^ BirdLife International 2009. Progne tapera. 2010 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2010.1 Downloaded on 21 March 2010.
^ Robert S. Ridgely and Guy Tudor, Field guide to the songbirds of South America: the passerines, 1st ed. University of Texas Press, 2009.

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