Black-collared swallow

{{Short description|Species of bird}}

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| name = Black-collared swallow

| image =Pygochelidon melanoleuca Black-collared Swallow; river Ji-Parana, Machadinho d'Oeste, Rondônia, Brazil 02.jpg

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| status = LC

| status_system = IUCN3.1

| status_ref = {{cite iucn |author=BirdLife International |date=2017 |title=Pygochelidon melanoleuca |volume=2017 |page=e.T22712140A118843844 |doi=10.2305/IUCN.UK.2017-3.RLTS.T22712140A118843844.en |access-date=16 November 2021}}

| genus = Pygochelidon

| species = melanoleuca

| authority = (Wied-Neuwied, 1820)

| synonyms = Atticora melanoleuca

| range_map = Atticora melanoleuca map.svg

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The black-collared swallow (Pygochelidon melanoleuca) is a species of bird in the family Hirundinidae.

It is found in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, French Guiana, Guyana, Paraguay, Suriname, and Venezuela.

Its natural habitat is rivers—in particular, "rapids and rocky outcrops stretches of medium and large sized rivers."{{Cite journal |last1=Silva |first1=Gabriele Andreia da |last2=Frederico |first2=Renata Guimarães |last3=Almeida |first3=Sara Miranda |last4=Salvador |first4=Gilberto Nepomuceno |last5=Malacco |first5=Gustavo Bernardino |last6=Melo |first6=Celine de |date=2022 |title=Conservation of the Black-collared Swallow, Pygochelidon melanoleuca (Wied, 1820) (Aves: Hirundinidae) in Brazil: potential negative impacts of hydropower plants |journal=Biota Neotropica |volume=22 |issue=1 |doi=10.1590/1676-0611-bn-2021-1305 |issn=1676-0611|doi-access=free }} It forages in the rapids, and nests in rocky outcrops. It is threatened by habitat loss from hydropower dams.

This species was formerly placed in the genus Atticora. It was moved to the resurrected genus Pygochelidon based on a phylogenetic study published in 2005.{{ cite journal | last1=Sheldon | first1=F.H. | last2=Whittingham | first2=L.A. | last3=Moyle | first3=R.G. | last4=Slikas | first4=B. | last5=Winkler | first5=D.W. | year=2005 | title=Phylogeny of swallows (Aves: Hirundinidae) estimated from nuclear and mitochondrial DNA sequencing | journal=Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution | volume=35 | issue=1 | pages=254–270 | doi=10.1016/j.ympev.2004.11.008 | pmid=15737595 }}{{ cite web | last=Stiles | first=F. Gary | date=2007 | title=Proposal 314: Revise the generic limits of Neotropical swallows | publisher=South American Classification Committee, American Ornithologists' Union | url=http://www.museum.lsu.edu/~Remsen/SACCprop314.htm | access-date=19 July 2021}}{{cite web| editor1-last=Gill | editor1-first=Frank | editor1-link=Frank Gill (ornithologist) | editor2-last=Donsker | editor2-first=David | editor3-last=Rasmussen | editor3-first=Pamela | editor3-link=Pamela Rasmussen | date=July 2021 | title=Swallows | work=IOC World Bird List Version 11.2 | url=https://www.worldbirdnames.org/bow/swallows/ | publisher=International Ornithologists' Union | access-date=19 July 2021 }}