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White-throated Swift
Aeronautes saxatalis

 

6-7" (15-18 cm). The size of a Barn Swallow, but with the typical stiff, fast wingbeats of a swift. Striking piebald appearance in the air; seen from below, wings, flanks, and tail black, the rest white.… read more

Chimney Swift
Chaetura pelagica

 

4 3/4-5 1/2" (12-14 cm). Similar to Vaux's Swift but slightly larger, more uniform gray-brown, with darker throat and breast.… read more

Vaux's Swift
Chaetura vauxi

 

4-4 1/2" (10-11 cm). A tiny swift. Dark overall, with dingy lighter underparts, especially pale on throat and upper breast. Wings long, stiff, and gently curved; tail slightly rounded. See Chimney Swift.… read more

Black Swift
Cypseloides niger

 

7-7 1/2" (18-19 cm). Size of a large swallow but with longer, sickle-shaped wings. All black, except whitish forehead, apparent at close range. Longish tail, slightly forked, often fanned. Feathers of immature edged with white.… read more

Barn Swallow
Hirundo rustica

 

5 3/4-7 3/4" (15-20 cm). Sparrow-sized. Our most familiar swallow, and the only one with a deeply forked tail. Upperparts dark steel-blue, underparts buff, throat and forehead rusty.… read more

Cave Swallow
Petrochelidon fulva (Hirundo fulva)

5 1/2" (14 cm). A stocky swallow with a square tail, steel-blue upperparts, buff throat and rump, and chestnut forehead.… read more

Cliff Swallow
Petrochelidon pyrrhonota (Hirundo pyrrhonota)

 

5-6" (13-15 cm). Sparrow-sized. A stocky, square-tailed swallow with pale buff rump. Upperparts dull steel-blue; underparts buff-white; throat dark chestnut; forehead white. Southwestern birds have chestnut foreheads.… read more

Purple Martin
Progne subis

 

7-8 1/2" (18-22 cm). Our largest swallow. Adult male dark steel-blue. Female and immature male duller above, pale gray below. Overhead, similar in shape to European Starling, but flight more buoyant and gliding.… read more

Bank Swallow
Riparia riparia

 

4 3/4-5 1/2" (12-14 cm). Sparrow-sized; our smallest swallow. Brown above, dull white below; breast crossed by distinct brown band; tail notched. Northern Rough-winged Swallow is warmer brown, with dusky throat and without brown breast band.… read more

Northern Rough-winged Swallow
Stelgidopteryx serripennis

 

5-5 3/4" (13-15 cm). Pale brown above, white below, with dingy brown throat. Bank Swallow is similar, but smaller, and has white throat and brown breast band.… read more

Tree Swallow
Tachycineta bicolor

 

5-6 1/4"(13-16 cm). Sparrow-sized. Metallic blue or blue-green above and clear white below. Young birds are dull brown above but may be distinguished from Bank and Northern Rough-winged swallows by their clearer white underparts. See Violet-green Swallow.… read more

Violet-green Swallow
Tachycineta thalassina

 

5-5 1/2" (13-14 cm). Dark, metallic, bronze-green upperparts; iridescent violet rump and tail, the latter slightly forked; white underparts. White cheek extending above eye and white on sides of rump distinguish it from Tree Swallow.… read more

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