Glossy blue above; mainly pale orange below; forehead chestnut; throat deep orange;
tail forked, outer tail streamers very long. Nest open cup of mud pellets/grass.
Inside/under overhang. Fast flier.
Crown, back, wings blue; rump buffy; underparts gray-white; forehead cream; foreneck
chestnut; hindneck gray; tail black, short, square. Flies in circles high, nests
in colonies under buildings, bridges. Especially common at Galisteo River bridges.
Crown, back, forewing green; back neck, flight feathers, mid-rump stripe and tail
dark violet; white underparts continue up behind eye; sides of rump white; tail
short, notched; bill tiny. Flight fluttery. Usually small flocks.
Violet-green Swallow, Northern Rough-winged Swallow, Bank Swallow, Barn Swallow
- SUMMER
Sighted at the
Ortiz Mountains Educational Preserve (an isolated high mountain group --
7,000 to 9,000 feet elevation -- eight miles south of Cerrillos.)
Tree swallow - May '02
Violet-green Swallow, Barn Swallow - as of '04
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