Southern rough-winged swallow | |
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S. r. ruficollis The Pantanal, Brazil | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Aves |
Order: | Passeriformes |
Family: | Hirundinidae |
Genus: | Stelgidopteryx |
Species: | S. ruficollis
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Binomial name | |
Stelgidopteryx ruficollis (Vieillot, 1817)
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The southern rough-winged swallow (Stelgidopteryx ruficollis) is a small swallow. It was first formally described as Hirundo ruficollis by French ornithologist Louis Vieillot in 1817 in his Nouveau Dictionnaire d'Histoire Naturelle.[2]
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