Golden Swallow

Tachycineta euchrysea (Gosse, 1847)

Golden Swallow, Tachycineta euchrysea, is a swallow of Hispaniola and Jamaica in North America. It breeds in the montane forests of Hispaniola, especially where Hispaniolan pine is present, and it formerly bred in Jamaica. The Hispaniolan form is set apart by a tail that is more deeply forked, a blue-green forehead and uppertail-coverts, and wings and tail that are blue-black. On Hispaniola it breeds from April to July, placing two to four white eggs in a cup nest. It also uses caves, house eaves, burned stands and nest boxes.

Order

Passeriformes

Family

Hirundinidae — Swallows, Martins

Breeding range

North America: Hispaniola, Jamaica