American Cliff Swallow
Petrochelidon pyrrhonota
Taxonomy
- Order
- Passeriformes
- Family
- Hirundinidae
- Genus
- Petrochelidon
- eBird Code
- cliswa
Subspecies (4)
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Petrochelidon pyrrhonota ganieri
breeds southern USA west of Appalachians (Tennessee to Texas); winters to South America
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Petrochelidon pyrrhonota melanogaster
breeds southeastern Arizona and New Mexico to Oaxaca; winters to South America
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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
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Petrochelidon pyrrhonota tachina
breeds southwestern USA to northwestern Mexico and Baja California; winters to South America
Data Sources
Taxonomy data from AviList 2025.