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Tachycineta cyaneoviridis (Bahama Swallow; Bahaman Swallow)

Synonyms: Callichelidon cyaneoviridis

Wikipedia Abstract

The Bahama Swallow (Tachycineta cyaneoviridis) is a swallow found only in the Bahamas.
View Wikipedia Record: Tachycineta cyaneoviridis

Endangered Species

Status: Endangered
View IUCN Record: Tachycineta cyaneoviridis

Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  17.5 grams
Birth Weight [2]  2 grams
Clutch Size [3]  3
Incubation [2]  16 days

Ecoregions

Name Countries Ecozone Biome Species Report Map Climate Land
Use
Bahamian pine mosaic Bahamas Neotropic Tropical and Subtropical Coniferous Forests  

Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Map Climate Land Use
Alejandro de Humboldt National Park II 175430 Cuba  
Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary IV 2387149 Florida, United States

Important Bird Areas

BirdLife Species Factsheet: View Factsheet
Name Location  IBA Criteria   Website   Map   Climate   Land Use 
Harrold and Wilson Ponds National Park Bahamas A1, A2, A4i, B4i
Lucayan National Park Bahamas A1, A2  
Red Bays Bahamas A1, A2, B4i  
San Andros Pond Bahamas A1, A2  
Stafford Creek to Andros Town Bahamas A1, A2, A4i  

Biodiversity Hotspots

Name Location Endemic Species Website Map
Caribbean Islands Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Aruba, Bahamas, Barbados, Cayman Islands, Cuba, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Haiti, Grenada, Guadeloupe, Jamaica, Martinique, Montserrat, Netherlands Antilles, Puerto Rico, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent And The Grenadines, Trinidad and Tobago, Turks And Caicos Islands, Virgin Islands - British, Virgin Islands - U.S. Yes

Range Map

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North America;

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Citations

Species recognized by Banks R.C., 17-Jul-2007, ITIS Global: The Integrated Taxonomic Information System in Catalog of Life 2011
Endangered Status provided by IUCN 2012. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2012.2 <www.iucnredlist.org> Downloaded on 11 April 2013.
Attributes / relations provided by ♦ 1Steadman, DW, Olson, S. L, Barber, J. C, Meister, CA & Melville, ME 1980. Weights of some West Indian Birds. Bull. Brit. Orn. Cl. 100: 155-158 ♦ 2BREEDING BIOLOGY AND NATURAL HISTORY OF THE BAHAMA SWALLOW, PAUL E. ALLEN, Wilson Bull., 108(3), 1996, pp. 480-495 ♦ 3Jetz W, Sekercioglu CH, Böhning-Gaese K (2008) The Worldwide Variation in Avian Clutch Size across Species and Space PLoS Biol 6(12): e303. doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.0060303
Ecoregions provided by World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). WildFinder: Online database of species distributions, ver. 01.06 gis.wwfus.org/wildfinder
Protected Areas provided by Biological Inventories of the World's Protected Areas in cooperation between the Information Center for the Environment at the University of California, Davis and numerous collaborators.
Biodiversity Hotspots provided by Biodiversity Hotspots, Conservation International
Important Bird Areas provided by BirdLife International (2010) Important Bird Areas. Downloaded from http://www.birdlife.org on 29/12/2010
Images provided by Google Image Search
Abstract provided by DBpedia licensed under a Creative Commons License
Range map provided by Ridgely, R. S., T. F. Allnutt, T. Brooks, D. K. McNicol, D. W. Mehlman, B. E. Young, and J. R. Zook. 2007. Digital Distribution Maps of the Birds of the Western Hemisphere, version 3.0. NatureServe, Arlington, Virginia, USA.
Data provided by NatureServe in collaboration with Robert Ridgely, James Zook, The Nature Conservancy - Migratory Bird Program, Conservation International - CABS, World Wildlife Fund - US, and Environment Canada - WILDSPACE.
Weather provided by NOAA METAR Data Access