Macho adulto © Alan Van Norman eBird S17601280 Macaulay Library ML 38911141
Fêmea/imatura © Pam Rasmussen
Juvenil © Sadhu Govardhan
Macho adulto © Marcelo Allende
Fêmea/imatura © Michiel Oversteegen

andorinha-do-caribe Progne dominicensis

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Identificação

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A graceful aerial feeder found over a wide variety of open habitats, especially near water, including marshes and towns. Often seen on exposed perches including power and telephone lines in villages. Commonly found in flocks of up to twenty birds, sometimes mixing with other swallows and martins. Note the male’s diagnostic glossy purple-blue plumage and snow-white belly. Females and immatures are similarly patterned, but have brown mixed with the blue and are probably not safely separable from Cuban Martin. Female and immature Purple Martins are very similar, but they often have a scaly breast and finely streaked belly, with less contrast between belly and chest. Notably, Cuban and Purple Martins are not present in this species’ range from March to September. Calls include a harsh “churr,” a buzzy “zwick-zwick,” and a musical buzzy burbling.

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