White-banded swallow

White-banded swallow
Cristalino River, Southern Amazon, Brazil
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Hirundinidae
Genus: Atticora
Species: A. fasciata
Binomial name
Atticora fasciata
(Gmelin, 1789)

The white-banded swallow (Atticora fasciata) is a species of bird in the family Hirundinidae. It is found in Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Peru, Suriname, and Venezuela. Its natural habitat is rivers.

References

On the Cristalino River, Southern Amazon, Brazil
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