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title: "Tersyna"
description: "Tersina viridis — Ptaki. The swallow tanager (Tersina viridis) is a species of Neotropic bird in the family Thraupidae, the tanagers and allies."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/pl/animal/swallow-tanager
last_updated: 2026-09-20
---

# Tersyna

> Tersina viridis — Ptaki. The swallow tanager (Tersina viridis) is a species of Neotropic bird in the family Thraupidae, the tanagers and allies.

- Scientific name: *Tersina viridis*
- Category: `birds` (Ptaki)
- Habitats: unknown
- iNaturalist observations: 4281
- Wikidata: [Q583812](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q583812)
- iNaturalist taxon: [10607](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/10607)

## Names

- en: Swallow Tanager
- de: Schwalbentangare
- es: Tersina
- fr: Tersine hirondelle
- nl: Zwaluwtangare
- pl: Tersyna

## Countries with the most observations

BR (1890), CO (812), EC (553), AR (235), PE (209), BO (152), VE (146), TT (20), PY (9), GF (7), PA (7)

## Summary

The swallow tanager (Tersina viridis) is a species of Neotropic bird in the family Thraupidae, the tanagers and allies. It occurs regularly in Panama, on Trinidad, and in every mainland South American country except Chile and Uruguay. It has occurred as a vagrant in those two countries and on Tobago and Bonaire and there are unconfirmed reports from Curaçao.

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

## Photo

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

Photo: Tiago Lubiana · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/143045208

## Machine access

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