Tree Swallow (Tachycineta bicolor)
Tree Swallow
English name : Tree Swallow | French (Français) name : Hirondelle bicolore | Spanish: Golondrina bicolor | Latin: Tachycineta bicolor (Vieillot, 1808)
Description: small head; Gleaming blue-green top; throat and underside white ; Long wings (relative to the body) black; Little black beak.
Size: 12-15 cm | 5 "-6" in.
Wingspan: 32 cm (F. J. Alsop) | 12" in | 1 ' ft
Weight: 17-25.5 g (HBW Alive) | 0.6-0.88 oz
Longevity: Average 2 years 3/4, up to 8 (Wikipedia French)-11 years (Oiseaux.net) | 132 months | 572 Weeks | 4018 days
Eggs: 4-6 white; 1.3 x 2 cm (F. J. Alsop)
Incubation: 11-20 days (Wikipedia English) | 2 weeks
Brooding: 13-16 days, one brood per year (F. J. Alsop) | 2 weeks
Food: Insects, spiders, molluscs, fruits. (HBW Alive)
Habitat: Near lakes, marshes, ponds; In short, near the water. (HBW Alive)
Distribution: North America and Central America
IUCN Status: LC | Least Concern (IUCN)
Population: stable (IUCN)
Estimated extent of occurence : 8,340,000 km2 (8 340 000 sq km) (IUCN)
Situation North America: Common in spring, sometimes summer and autumn, absent in winter. Migratory.
| Classification | Classification title (latin) | English |
| Kingdom | Animalia | Animals |
| Phylum | Chordata | Chordates |
| Class | Aves | Birds |
| Order | Passeriformes | Passerines |
| Family | Hirundinidae | Hirundinidae |
| Genus | Tachycineta | (9 swallows) |
| Species | Tachycineta bicolor | Tree Swallow |
Click here to see the page of the Tree Swallow en french (Hirondelle bicolore)
Tree Swallows -- Baie-du-Febvre, Centre-du-Québec, Quebec, Canada -- 16 april 2014 -- DominicL
Tree Swallow -- Jessie Lake Causeway (Southwest Side), St. Paul, Alberta, Canada -- 1 jun 2013 -- Mathieu L.
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