White-banded Swallow Atticora fasciata

Brazilian name: peitoril
White-banded Swallow, Cristalino, Mato Grosso, Brazil, December 2006 - click for larger image Brazil

The White-banded Swallow is distributed throughout the Amazon and Orinoco Basins where it is found along streams and rivers bordered by forest. It is usually associated with clear or black water rivers.

White-banded Swallows with a White-winged Swallow, Cristalino, Mato Grosso, Brazil, March 2003 - click for larger image They are usually in small groups and in the second photo where you see them associating with a White-winged Swallow Tachycineta albiventer.

There are illustrations in Ridgely & Tudor, Volume 1, Plate 2; Hilty & Brown, Plate 40; and Sick, Plate 36.
White-banded Swallow, Cristalino, Mato Grosso, Brazil, December 2006 - click for larger image There are recordings and a distribution map on xeno-canto.
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