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Violet-green Swallow

Tachycineta thalassina ORDER: PASSERIFORMES FAMILY: HIRUNDINIDAE

IUCN Conservation Status: Least Concern

A beautiful swallow of open woodlands, the Violet-green Swallow is found only in the American West.

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Calls

  • Dawn song
    Recorded by Geoffrey A. Keller
    • Courtesy of Macaulay Library
    © Cornell Lab of Ornithology.

Call a chirping series of "chee-chee" notes.

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