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The Peruvian martin is 16.5 to 17 cm (6.5 to 6.7 in) long and weighs 30 to 37 g (1.1 to 1.3 oz). The sexes are dimorphic. Adult males have a glossy blue-black head and upperparts. Their tail is slightly forked; it and their wings are fuscous-black with a slight bluish sheen on their coverts. Their underparts are somewhat bluer and duller than their upperparts with fuscous-black undertail coverts. Females have a mouse-gray head with black lores. Their upperparts are mouse-gray with a shiny steel-blue band across the middle of the back and the scapulars and blue-black tips on some rump feathers. Voice: As of January 2026 xeno-canto had a single recording of Peruvian martin vocalizations; the Cornell Lab's Macaulay Library had five others. The vocalizations have not been put into words.
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When to see the Peruvian Martin
One bar for each month, and every month is filled: this bird is recorded here in all twelve. The wide bar is January, the month with the most records.
Where to see the Peruvian Martin
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About the Peruvian Martin
The Peruvian martin is a Near Threatened species of bird in the family Hirundinidae, the swallows and martins. It is found in primarily in Peru and far northern Chile with some records in Colombia.
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Easily confused with
Sinaloa MartinProgne sinaloaeThe Sinaloa martin is 17 to 18.5 cm (6.7 to 7.3 in) long; three individuals weighed between 42 and 43.7 g (1.5 and 1.5 oz).
Galapagos MartinProgne modestaThe Galapagos martin is about 15 cm (5.9 in) long.
Cuban MartinProgne cryptoleucaAdult Cuban martins are 18.5 cm in length, with a forked tail and relatively broad wings, and weigh 40 g.
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