Small songbird with a small head and tiny bill. Adults are brown above with a brown breast band and a white swoosh on the neck.
Nests in burrows excavated using its feet and bill, placed along banks and bluffs of rivers and streams, as well as gravel quarries and roadcuts.
In flight, note pale belly and darker wings with a brown band across the chest.
Brown above and white below with a brown band across its chest.
Adults are brown above with a white throat that wraps up around the side of the neck. Note slightly forked tail.
Nests in burrows; forages for insects fairly low over fields, water, and other open areas.
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A small swallow with a chunky body, large head, relatively short pointed wings, and a slightly forked tail.
The smallest of North America’s swallow species, similar in size to a Chimney Swift but with shorter, broader wings.
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