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Blue-and-white Swallow

Pygochelidon cyanoleuca · Family Hirundinidae

Pygochelidon cyanoleuca

Family Hirundinidae

Order
Passeriformes
Family
Hirundinidae
GBIF occurrence records
877,729
Countries and territories with records
23
Blue-and-white Swallow
Alejandro Bayer Tamayo from Armenia, Colombia · Pygochelidon cyanoleuca (Golondrina azul y blanca) (14025350735).jpg · CC BY-SA 2.0 · Alejandro Bayer Tamayo from Armenia, Colombia · CC BY-SA 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons · Recordings may be trimmed and re-encoded; photos are cropped and resized.
Play song · Niels Krabbe · Notiochelidon_cyanoleuca_-_Blue-and-white_Swallow_XC242902.mp3 · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Niels Krabbe · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons · Recordings may be trimmed and re-encoded; photos are cropped and resized.

About this species

This species has 877,729 occurrence records from 23 countries and territories (GBIF, 21 October 2026). Most records come from Brazil (24.6%), Costa Rica (17.4%), Colombia (17.4%), Ecuador (11.7%) and Peru (7.4%); together they account for 78.5% of the total. In Brazil, this species accounts for 0.91% of all bird records in GBIF.

The scientific name Pygochelidon cyanoleuca combines the genus name Pygochelidon with the species epithet cyanoleuca. The Warbla app catalog lists one other species of the genus Pygochelidon: Pygochelidon melanoleuca.

The catalog has GBIF record counts for 83 species of the family Hirundinidae. This species ranks 10th among them; the family’s most-recorded species is Hirundo rustica. Its record count is 1.5 times the family average (600,011). The family Hirundinidae belongs to the order Passeriformes, which has 6,193 species in the Warbla app catalog.

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