🐾 What Animal Lives Where

Where does the Brown-chested Martin live?

Progne tapera has 198,005 records in 24 countries and territories, from 1836 to 2026. Most records come from Argentina.

Brown-chested Martin
Brown-chested Martin β€” Charles J. Sharp / CC BY-SA 4.0 Β· source
AnimaliaChordataAvesPasseriformesHirundinidaeProgne

When it is recorded

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Peak month: October. Records cluster in the months an animal is present and being looked for, so a summer peak can reflect observer effort as much as the animal.

Where it is recorded

PlaceRecordsShare
Argentina 80,386
Brazil 52,359
Uruguay 20,565
Colombia 18,082
Peru 8,612
Paraguay 5,458
Ecuador 3,533
Venezuela 3,360
Bolivia 3,090
Guyana 857
French Guiana 814
Panama 323
Suriname 276
United States 120
Aruba 53
Chile 44
CuraΓ§ao 27
Costa Rica 14
Bonaire 10
Guadeloupe 9
Guatemala 6
Mexico 4
Belize 2
Barbados 1

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Status from the records: resident
Recorded across many years and months β€” an established presence. This is inferred from how many years and months the animal appears in, not from a range map β€” treat it as evidence, not a formal assessment.