Blue and White Swallow

Copyright: monacoeye • Do not copy without permission • Mostardas, Brazil, November.

Bird name: Blue and White Swallow
Latin: Notiochelidon cyanoleuca
Other: Golondrina barranquera (Es) • Andorinha-pequena-de-casa (Br)
Family: Hirundinidae • Swallows
Range: Widespread South America, also Panama
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The Blue-and-White Swallow is a small swallow, with dark, blue-black and brown upperparts and white below except for under tail. NB dark rump.

The Blue-and-White Swallow seems one of the most widespread swallows in Latin America, seen frequently in Brazil, in Mostardas and Itatiaia, and then again in the highlands of Panama.





Below, a Blue-and-white Swallow in the Chiriqui highlands, Panama, May.


Below, a Blue-and-white Swallow in Ubatuba, Brazil, November.


Below, Blue-and-white Swallows roosted at Los Quetzales lodge in Chiriqui



Below, a Blue-and-white Swallow flies across the canopy in Itatiaia, Brazil, November.