Southern Martin (Progne elegans) |
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© Foek Chin Joe | © Foek Chin Joe | © Foek Chin Joe |
© Foek Chin Joe | two species © Dominiek Plouvier | © Dominiek Plouvier |
The pictures show several individuals of the Southern Martin. The first two pictures are of males (the dark blue ones) sitting next to a grey-breasted martin and photographed by Foek Chin Joe at Paranam, the second of July 2007. Then two females also from Foek at Weg naar Zee in June 2007. The birds are often found in a group of Grey-breasted Martins (and some Brown-chested martins) at sleeping places in the months that they come to Suriname, fleeing from the cold in the south of South America, April to October. The males of the southern martin have a more deeply forked tail than the males of the Purple martin from the North, but they can hardly be discerned in the field. The females are different, those of the southern martin have much more brown below. Dominiek Plouvier made the video of a single Southern martin in August 23. |
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Video recording of a Southern Martin © ; |
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Observations through the year | Observations of breeding through the year |
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The 49 reported observations of this bird in Suriname, mainly for the last 50 years up to 2018, have been grouped by month. More birds on one day are counted as one observation. Of course, if the graph should depict the total number of birds seen, the differences between the months could be much more pronounced. | The reported breeding observations of this bird in Suriname. Most observations are about nest with eggs, some about fledglings, or feeding at a nest or the building of a nest. Of the about 5000 nests and eggs found for all species together, about 1/3 comes from the egg collection of Penard between 1896 and 1905. For some reason most collecting then was done in the first half of each year, so the shown distribution does not necessarily reflect the actual breeding preferences. The main dry season in Suriname is reckoned to be from half August to the end of November, the main wet season from half April to half August, but the the timing of begin and end does vary from year to year. Around March a second dry season often occurs. |