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title: "Grijsborstpurperzwaluw"
description: "Progne chalybea — Vogels. The grey-breasted martin (Progne chalybea) is a large swallow from Central and South America."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/nl/animal/gray-breasted-martin
last_updated: 2026-09-20
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# Grijsborstpurperzwaluw

> Progne chalybea — Vogels. The grey-breasted martin (Progne chalybea) is a large swallow from Central and South America.

- Scientific name: *Progne chalybea*
- Category: `birds` (Vogels)
- Habitats: unknown
- iNaturalist observations: 11735
- Wikidata: [Q3136297](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3136297)
- iNaturalist taxon: [11872](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/11872)

## Names

- en: Gray-breasted Martin
- de: Graubrustschwalbe
- es: Golondrina Pecho Gris
- fr: Hirondelle chalybée
- nl: Grijsborstpurperzwaluw
- pt: Andorinha-doméstica-grande
- pl: Jaskółczak szarogardły

## Countries with the most observations

AR (1891), BR (1648), MX (1140), PA (743), EC (644), CR (575), CO (461), UY (206), GF (188), SV (185), HN (129), NI (112)

## Summary

The grey-breasted martin (Progne chalybea) is a large swallow from Central and South America.

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

## Photo

![Grijsborstpurperzwaluw](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/gray-breasted-martin/medium.jpg)

Photo: Don Wellmann · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/160821147

## Machine access

`GET https://animalchecklist.com/api/v1/animals/gray-breasted-martin?lang=nl` — see [openapi.json](https://animalchecklist.com/openapi.json).