Atticora fasciata
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In 3 days ~60% in a week ~90%
The white-banded swallow (Atticora fasciata) is a species of bird in the family Hirundinidae. It is black with white thighs, a white breast, and has white bars on the edges of its wings. It has a distinct, deeply forked tail.
It is found in Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Peru, Suriname, and Venezuela, in tropical lowlands. It is non-migratory. Its natural habitats are rivers and forested areas. It nests in burrows and does not use artificial cavities.
The white-banded swallow is evaluated as of least-concern by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN). The white-banded swallow was formally described in 1789 by the German naturalist Johann Friedrich Gmelin in his revised and expanded edition of Carl Linnaeus's Systema Naturae. He placed it with the swallows in the genus Hirundo and coined the binomial name Hirundo fasciata. Gmelin based his entry on "L'hirondelle à ceinture blanche" from Cayenne in French Guiana that had been described in 1779 by the French polymath, the Comte de Buffon. The bird was illustrated with an engraving by François-Nicolas Martinet. The white-banded swallow is now one of three species placed in the...
| # | Park | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Cuyabeno Wildlife Reserve | 🇪🇨 Ecuador | |
| 2 | Manu National Park | 🇵🇪 Peru | |
| 3 | Yasuní National Park | 🇪🇨 Ecuador | |
| 4 | Madidi National Park | 🇧🇴 Bolivia | |
| 5 | Tambopata National Reserve | 🇵🇪 Peru | |
| 6 | Sierra de la Macarena National Park | 🇨🇴 Colombia | |
| 7 | Amacayacu National Natural Park | 🇨🇴 Colombia | |
| 8 | Podocarpus National Park | 🇪🇨 Ecuador |
Possible
About 30% of wildlife watchers report a White-banded Swallow sighting in Madidi National Park on a given day, based on 63 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data from 2019 to 2026. It is the 28th most-seen of the 239 birds we can rate there. Over three days the chance rises to about 60%, and over a week to about 90%, if each day is a fresh chance.
July
In that month about 50% of wildlife watchers report a White-banded Swallow in Madidi National Park on a given day, against about 10% in January, April and October, the lowest months. That is one of Madidi National Park's driest months, with about 40 mm of rain against 290 mm in February. March and December have too few records to rate.
Between 10 am and 1 pm
Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most White-banded Swallow sightings with a recorded time, and about 9 in 10 of them come between 6 am and 6 pm: it is a daytime animal.
Among the best
Of the 8 parks where we can rate White-banded Swallow sightings, Madidi National Park ranks 4th at about 30%, level with the leaders once rounded. The best odds are in Cuyabeno Wildlife Reserve (Ecuador, about 30%), Manu National Park (Peru, about 30%) and Yasuní National Park (Ecuador, about 30%).
Same family: Hirundinidae
The closest relatives of the White-banded Swallow that you can see in Madidi National Park (family Hirundinidae, Swallows and Martins) are White-winged Swallow (about 40%), Southern Rough-winged Swallow (about 20%) and Brown-chested Martin (about 10%), with each one's daily chance of a sighting.
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the White-banded Swallow is recorded against all the birds logged in Madidi National Park (63 verified sightings from 2019 to 2026), calibrated against known sighting rates. Figures are rounded to the nearest 10% because citizen-science data supports honest approximations, not decimals, and months with records from fewer than five people show "—". How it works.
