Northern Rough-winged Swallow
Stelgidopteryx serripennis

Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Subphylum: Vertebrata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Hirundinidae
Genus: Stelgidopteryx

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Description

Length: 4.7-5.9 in (12-15 cm) Weight: 0.4-0.6 oz (10-18 g) Wingspan: 10.6-11.8 in (27-30 cm)

They have a tiny bill; warm brown upperparts and white underparts, with a dusky throat and breast.

Habitat, Range, and Feeding

Their winter range is the lowlands and foothills along river channels in Mexico and Central America.
The Rough-winged breeds over a wide rang of altitudes; sea level to 2,500 feet. Usually on river banks and cliffs near water, and escavates holes in burrows and crevices. They will nest in small groups of 2 to 25 pairs. They put small amounts of woody twigs, weed stems, straw, roots and rootlets, coarse and fine grass (dry and green), sedges, leaves and parts of leaves (sometimes green), wood chips, bark shreds, plant fibers, pine needles, moss, grass heads, flowers or parts of flowers, seeds, dung, mud, hair, string, and miscellaneous bits of rubbish. The clutch size is 4 to 8 eggs, that are white. The incubation period is 15 to 16 days. They fledge in 17 to 21 days.

They aerial forage for flying insects.