Pale-footed Swallow (Orochelidon flavipes) | Photos, Calls and ID

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What the Pale-footed Swallow sounds like

Sonogram of the Pale-footed Swallow: time runs left to right, pitch bottom to top, and the brighter the mark the louder the sound.

Recorded by Niels Krabbe · Flight call · Zamora-Chinchipe: camp on Ventanilla-Christopher Parson trail, Reserva Tapichalaca, Ecuador · CC BY-SA 4.0 · via xeno-canto

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This swallow has an average length of 12 cm (4.7 in) and an average weight of 10.6 g (0.37 oz). It has dark, glossy blue upperparts, with the wing, tail, and undertail coverts being more black than the rest. They have a dusky chin and a throat coloured cinnamon-buff. The white chest is tinged cinnamon-buff. The belly is also white. They have blackish-brown underwing coverts, axillars, flanks, and tibial feathers. They have a black bill with pink mouth-lining and a dark brown iris. They have a slightly notched tail. Their lower legs and toes are made of pink flesh.

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When to see the Pale-footed Swallow

One bar for each month. Filled bars are the 11 months with records; pale bars are months with none. The wide bar is August, the month with the most records.

Where to see the Pale-footed Swallow

Regular range

The map shades 5 countries with regular records. Everything unshaded has no records. Countries are listed below the map.

Colombia Peru Ecuador Bolivia Venezuela

About the Pale-footed Swallow

The pale-footed swallow is a species of bird in the family Hirundinidae. It is found in the northern Andes, from Venezuela to Bolivia. It is monotypic.

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Easily confused with

Andean SwallowOrochelidon andecolaThe Andean swallow is 13.5 to 14 cm (5.3 to 5.5 in) long and weighs 14 to 19 g (0.49 to 0.67 oz).

Brown-bellied SwallowOrochelidon murinaThe brown-bellied swallow is about 14 cm (5.5 in) long and weighs about 12.5 g (0.44 oz).

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