Golden Swallow (bird)

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Golden Swallow
Conservation status
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Hirundinidae
Genus: Tachycineta
Species: T. euchrysea
Binomial name
Tachycineta euchrysea
(Gosse, 1847, higher mountains in the centre of Jamaica)

The Golden Swallow (Tachycineta euchrysea) is a swallow native to Jamaica and Hispaniola, though it is considered by some ornithologists to have become extinct in the former.

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