Tachycineta albiventer
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In 3 days ~80% in a week >90%
The white-winged swallow (Tachycineta albiventer) is a resident breeding swallow in tropical South America found in Brazil, Colombia, Venezuela, Trinidad, and Argentina. It is not found west of the Andes. This swallow is largely non-migratory.
The white-winged swallow was described by the French polymath Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon in 1780 in his Histoire Naturelle des Oiseaux from a specimen collected in Cayenne, French Guiana. The bird was also illustrated in a hand-coloured plate engraved by François-Nicolas Martinet in the Planches Enluminées D'Histoire Naturelle which was produced under the supervision of Edme-Louis Daubenton to accompany Buffon's text. Neither the plate caption nor Buffon's description included a scientific name but in 1783 the Dutch naturalist Pieter Boddaert coined the binomial name Hirundo albiventer in his catalogue of the Planches Enluminées. The white-winged swallow is now one of nine species placed in the genus Tachycineta that was introduced in 1850 by the German ornithologist Jean Cabanis. The species is monotypic and no subspecies are currently recognized. The genus name is from the Ancient Greek takhukinētos meaning "moving...
| # | Park | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Parque Estadual Encontro das Águas | 🇧🇷 Brazil | |
| 2 | Cuyabeno Wildlife Reserve | 🇪🇨 Ecuador | |
| 3 | Yasuní National Park | 🇪🇨 Ecuador | |
| 4 | Anavilhanas National Park | 🇧🇷 Brazil | |
| 5 | Madidi National Park | 🇧🇴 Bolivia | |
| 6 | Caroni Swamp | 🇹🇹 Trinidad and Tobago | |
| 7 | Manu National Park | 🇵🇪 Peru | |
| 8 | Tambopata National Reserve | 🇵🇪 Peru | |
| 9 | Amacayacu National Natural Park | 🇨🇴 Colombia | |
| 10 | Sierra de la Macarena National Park | 🇨🇴 Colombia | |
| 11 | Main Ridge Forest Reserve | 🇹🇹 Trinidad and Tobago | |
| 12 | Iguaçu National Park | 🇧🇷 Brazil | |
| 13 | Iguazú National Park | 🇦🇷 Argentina | |
| 14 | Emas National Park | 🇧🇷 Brazil | |
| 15 | Henri Pittier National Park | 🇻🇪 Venezuela | |
| 16 | Serra da Canastra National Park | 🇧🇷 Brazil | |
| 17 | Iberá National Park | 🇦🇷 Argentina |
| # | City | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Salvador | 🇧🇷 Brazil | |
| 2 | Maceió | 🇧🇷 Brazil | |
| 3 | Belém | 🇧🇷 Brazil | |
| 4 | Natal | 🇧🇷 Brazil | |
| 5 | Recife | 🇧🇷 Brazil | |
| 6 | João Pessoa | 🇧🇷 Brazil | |
| 7 | São Luís | 🇧🇷 Brazil | |
| 8 | Fortaleza | 🇧🇷 Brazil | |
| 9 | Barranquilla | 🇨🇴 Colombia | |
| 10 | Vitória | 🇧🇷 Brazil |
| # | Zoo / Centre | Country | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Aviario Nacional de Colombia | 🇨🇴 Colombia |
Likely
About 40% of wildlife watchers report a White-winged Swallow sighting in Madidi National Park on a given day, based on 103 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data from 2019 to 2026. It is the 6th most-seen of the 239 birds we can rate there. Over three days the chance rises to about 80%, and over a week to over 90%, if each day is a fresh chance.
July
In that month about 70% of wildlife watchers report a White-winged Swallow in Madidi National Park on a given day, against about 20% in January 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 8 and 11 am
Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most White-winged Swallow sightings with a recorded time, and nearly all of them come between 6 am and 6 pm: it is a daytime animal.
5th of 17
Of the 17 parks where we can rate White-winged Swallow sightings, Madidi National Park ranks 5th at about 40%. The best odds are in Parque Estadual Encontro das Águas (Brazil, about 70%), Cuyabeno Wildlife Reserve (Ecuador, about 50%) and Yasuní National Park (Ecuador, about 40%). All parks ranked.
Same family: Hirundinidae
The closest relatives of the White-winged Swallow that you can see in Madidi National Park (family Hirundinidae, Swallows and Martins) are White-banded Swallow (about 30%), 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-winged Swallow is recorded against all the birds logged in Madidi National Park (103 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.
