American Cliff Swallow

Subspecies (4)

• Petrochelidon pyrrhonota ganieri

  breeds southern USA west of Appalachians (Tennessee to Texas); winters to South America

• Petrochelidon pyrrhonota melanogaster

  breeds southeastern Arizona and New Mexico to Oaxaca; winters to South America

• Petrochelidon pyrrhonota pyrrhonota

  breeds North America from western Alaska to southeastern Canada southward to northwestern Mexico (northern Baja California) and the USA (except for the southwest); winters in South America, from Bolivia and southern Brazil to east-central Argentina; since 2015 also breeding locally in east-central Argentina (this subspecies?), nonbreeding from the southern USA southward to Colombia and Venezuela

• Petrochelidon pyrrhonota tachina

  breeds southwestern USA to northwestern Mexico and Baja California; winters to South America