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Southern Martin
Progne elegans Baird, SF, 1865
Hirundinidae — Swallows, Martins
Southern Martin, Progne elegans, is a swallow in the family Hirundinidae and breeds widely across South America. It is a bird of semi-open and open country, including grassland, woodland, scrub and settled areas, and it also turns up as a vagrant in the Malvinas/Falkland Islands and Florida. Its plumage is sexually different, but both sexes share a deeply forked tail. Adult males are mostly glossy steel-blue, while females are duller above and have dusky brown underparts with pale edging that gives a scaly look.
- Order
- Passeriformes
- Family
- Hirundinidae — Swallows, Martins
- Breeding range
- South America: widespread
