found as high as . Behavior Feeding The swallow-winged puffbird hunts by sorties from an exposed perch. Its diet is mostly flying insects that it captures on the wing and consumes in flight. Breeding The swallow-winged puffbird's breeding season varies across its wide range. It digs a nest tunnel in flat sandy ground or an earthen bank (including human-made ones such as road cuts). The clutch is one or two whitish eggs. Vocalization The swallow-winged puffbird has a "[t]wittering song often given in flight". Its calls include "'tsi-tsi-tsi' and [a] high clear 'dí-didi dí-didi dí-didi…'." Status The IUCN has assessed the swallow-winged puffbird as being of Least Concern. It has an extremely large range, and though its population has not been enumerated it is believed to be increasing. It is "characterized in general as locally common...according to habitat availability." It might even benefit from human actions such as conversion of forest to pasture and road building. References External links Swallow-wing photo gallery VIREO Swallow-winged puffbird and nest photos swallow-winged puffbird Birds of the Amazon Basin Birds of the Guianas Birds of Colombia Birds of Venezuela Birds of the Atlantic Forest swallow-winged puffbird Taxonomy articles created by Polbot