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Genus of birds From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Petrochelidon is a genus of birds known as cliff-nesting swallows. The genus name Petrochelidon is from the Greek words petra, "rock", and khelidon, "swallow".[2]
Petrochelidon | |
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An American cliff swallow starting to build a mud nest under the eaves of a building in California | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Aves |
Order: | Passeriformes |
Family: | Hirundinidae |
Genus: | Petrochelidon Cabanis, 1851 |
Type species | |
Hirundo melanogaster[1] Swainson, 1827 | |
Species | |
10, See text |
The genus includes all of the five species of birds commonly called cliff swallow, and contains the following species:
The genus contains ten species:[3]
Image | Common name | Scientific name | Distribution |
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American cliff swallow | Petrochelidon pyrrhonota | Canada and the United States of America, South American countries, such as Southern Brazil, Uruguay, and parts of Argentina. | |
Cave swallow | Petrochelidon fulva | south-eastern New Mexico, Texas, Florida, the Greater Antilles, portions of southern Mexico, and along the west coast of South America. | |
Chestnut-collared swallow | Petrochelidon rufocollaris | Ecuador and Peru. | |
Preuss's cliff swallow | Petrochelidon preussi | Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Republic of the Congo, Ivory Coast, Equatorial Guinea, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Mali, Niger, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, and Togo. | |
Red-throated cliff swallow | Petrochelidon rufigula | Angola, Republic of the Congo, DRC, Gabon, and Zambia. | |
Red Sea cliff swallow | Petrochelidon perdita | Sudan. | |
South African cliff swallow | Petrochelidon spilodera | Botswana, Republic of the Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Gabon, Lesotho, Malawi, Namibia, South Africa, Zambia, and Zimbabwe. | |
Streak-throated swallow | Petrochelidon fluvicola | Afghanistan, Bangladesh, India, Nepal and Pakistan. | |
Fairy martin | Petrochelidon ariel | Australia, with some birds reaching New Guinea and Indonesia. | |
Tree martin | Petrochelidon nigricans | Australia, New Guinea, Indonesia east of the Wallace Line and the Solomon Islands. | |
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