| Pygochelidon | |
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| Blue-and-white swallow (Pygochelidon cyanoleuca) | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Passeriformes |
| Family: | Hirundinidae |
| Genus: | Pygochelidon Baird, SF, 1865 |
| Type species | |
| Hirundo cyanoleuca blue-and-white swallow Vieillot, 1817 | |
Pygochelidon is a genus of birds in the swallow family Hirundinidae that occur in the Neotropics.
The genus Pygochelidon was introduced in 1865 by the American naturalist Spencer Fullerton Baird with the blue-and-white swallow as the type species. [1] The name combines the Ancient Greek pugē meaning "rump" with khelidōn meaning "swallow". [2]
This genus was formerly treated as a junior synonym of the genus Notiochelidon . [3] It was resurrected to contain a clade of two species based on a genetic study published in 2005. [4] [5]
The genus contains two species: [5]
Baird's sandpiper is a small shorebird. It is among those calidrids which were formerly included in the genus Erolia, which was subsumed into the genus Calidris in 1973. The genus name is from Ancient Greek kalidris or skalidris, a term used by Aristotle for some grey-coloured waterside birds. The English name and specific bairdii commemorate Spencer Fullerton Baird, 19th-century naturalist and assistant secretary of the Smithsonian Institution.
The Eurasian crag martin or just crag martin is a small passerine bird in the swallow family. It is about 14 cm (5.5 in) long with ash-brown upperparts and paler underparts, and a short, square tail that has distinctive white patches on most of its feathers. It breeds in the mountains of southern Europe, northwestern Africa and across the Palearctic. It can be confused with the three other species in its genus, but is larger with brighter tail spots and different plumage tone. Many European birds are resident, but some northern populations and most Asian breeders are migratory, wintering in northern Africa, the Middle East or India.
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