Tawny-headed swallow

Tawny-headed swallow
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Hirundinidae
Subfamily: Hirundininae
Genus: Alopochelidon
Ridgway, 1903
Species: A. fucata
Binomial name
Alopochelidon fucata
(Temminck, 1822)

The tawny-headed swallow (Alopochelidon fucata) is a species of bird in the family Hirundinidae. It is monotypic within the genus Alopochelidon.[2] It is found in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Falkland Islands, Paraguay, Peru, Uruguay, and Venezuela,[1] where its natural habitats are dry savanna and subtropical or tropical seasonally wet or flooded lowland grassland.[3]

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