Endangered
Galápagos Martin
Progne modesta
Galápagos Martin is a perching bird in the family Hirundinidae (order Passeriformes) — Progne modesta, recorded as Endangered.
Appearance
Their wings and tail are black with a faint bluish or greenish sheen. Their underparts are mostly dark sooty gray or grayish sooty with indistinct pale tips on the feathers. Both sexes have a brown iris, a black bill, and brownish black or dusky brown legs and feet.
The Galapagos martin is about 15 cm (5.9 in) long.
Range and habitat
The Galapagos martin is found on the central and southern islands of the Galápagos archipeligo but is absent from the five northernmost. It has historically inhabited most of the islands' landscapes among them built-up areas but is now found mostly in the highlands up to about 1,500 m (4,900 ft) above sea level. It is endemic to the Galápagos Islands.
Pins are Wikidata “endemic to” fields. Orange dots, when present, are GBIF occurrence tiles — survey bias included.
Diet and breeding
Even though its diet has not been fully described it is known to include moths and butterflies. It is believed to forage in small flocks, primarily low to the ground.
The Galapagos martin is believed to breed during the warm wet season centered in March. Nothing else is known about the species' breeding biology.
In crisis
Galápagos Martin is Endangered on this catalog because that is the IUCN category stored on Wikidata. Confirm the official criteria and any later count on iucnredlist.org.
Sources
Written for this catalog from the English Wikipedia article on Galápagos Martin, Wikidata item Q555727. Family and order context is original field-guide writing about the group, not a copied assessment of this one species. Wikipedia text is CC BY-SA. Not an IUCN assessment. Counts, when quoted, can change — confirm them on the recovery programme and on iucnredlist.org.
