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The brown-chested martin (Progne tapera) is a species of passerine bird in the swallow family.
| Brown-chested martin | |
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| In Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Passeriformes |
| Family: | Hirundinidae |
| Genus: | Progne |
| Species: | P. tapera |
| Binomial name | |
| Progne tapera (Linnaeus, 1766) | |
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| Synonyms | |
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Hirundo tapera Linnaeus, 1766 | |
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.[1]
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It often congregates in groups of up to tens of thousands around dusk.[2]
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