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title: "Mangroveschwalbe"
description: "Tachycineta albilinea — Vögel. The mangrove swallow (Tachycineta albilinea) is a passerine bird in the swallow family that breeds in coastal regions from Mexico through Central America to Panama."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/de/animal/mangrove-swallow
last_updated: 2026-09-20
---

# Mangroveschwalbe

> Tachycineta albilinea — Vögel. The mangrove swallow (Tachycineta albilinea) is a passerine bird in the swallow family that breeds in coastal regions from Mexico through Central America to Panama.

- Scientific name: *Tachycineta albilinea*
- Category: `birds` (Vögel)
- Habitats: unknown
- iNaturalist observations: 6130
- Wikidata: [Q942435](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q942435)
- iNaturalist taxon: [11930](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/11930)

## Names

- en: Mangrove Swallow
- de: Mangroveschwalbe
- es: Golondrina manglera
- fr: Hirondelle des mangroves
- nl: Mangrovezwaluw
- pl: Nadobniczka namorzynowa

## Countries with the most observations

MX (2642), CR (1405), BZ (421), PA (408), GT (202), NI (163), SV (157), HN (94), CO (4)

## Summary

The mangrove swallow (Tachycineta albilinea) is a passerine bird in the swallow family that breeds in coastal regions from Mexico through Central America to Panama. It has blue-green upperparts, blackish flight feathers, a white rump, a black tail, and white underparts. It can be identified by the supraloral white streak, the white line near its eye, which only occurs in two other species of Tachycineta: the violet-green swallow and the white-rumped swallow. The sexes, although similar in plumage, differ slightly in size. The juveniles have grey-brown upperparts and white-washed underparts. This swallow's song is…

Text: Wikipedia (en), CC BY-SA 4.0 — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mangrove_swallow

## Photo

![Mangroveschwalbe](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/mangrove-swallow/medium.jpg)

Photo: Jorge Arturo Rama Aguilar · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/187595317

## Machine access

`GET https://animalchecklist.com/api/v1/animals/mangrove-swallow?lang=de` — see [openapi.json](https://animalchecklist.com/openapi.json).