GRAY – BREASTED MARTIN, Progne Chalybea
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URBAN BIRDS OF THE PARKS, GARDENS, AND SOURROUNDING AREAS OF LOJA CITY ECUADOR. BOOK WITH 44 COMMON SPECIES. ILLUSTRATED BY PABLO ANDRADE. WORK SUPPORTED BY JAN HINLOOPEN, Spanish version.
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GRAY – BREASTED MARTIN, Progne Chalybea
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Distribution
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Mostly below 2000 meters
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Gray – breasted Martin, Progne chalybea.- By far Ecuador?s most common martin, widespread in semiopen and open areas especially around towns and other inhabited areas, mainly in lowlands; most numerous in southwest.
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In Loja is possible to see it in the city and the surroundings.
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Description
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18 cm.
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Steely blue above, glossier in males; belly white, sometimes with a little dusky streaking. Tail fairly long and forked. Sexes nearly alike.
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Gray – breasted Martin, Progne chalybea
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Habits:
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A conspicuous swallow, perching on wires and buildings and often nesting in colonies, under eaves (where these are not available, in dead snags). Roosts can be very large during the nonbreeding season. Regularly flies well above ground. Gray – breasted Martin, Progne chalybea.
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Innformation taken from the book Birds Of Ecuador of Robert Ridgely and Paul Greenfield
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