Characterization: Small species measuring about 12cm in length. It has a shiny dark blue head, back, wings, and tail, a white chest and belly, and, when young, it is brown and has a yellowish chest.

Distribution: Throughout Brazil and also from Costa Rica to the Guianas, and almost throughout South America.

Habitat: Open and semi-open areas, usually more abundant in cities or in rural areas.

Habits: This is a diurnal and migratory bird species that lives in pairs and becomes restless at dawn and dusk, increasing its chirp and singing until settling down in the nest where the couple usually sleeps.

Diet: Carnivorous, strictly insectivorous.

Breeding: It lays 2-3 eggs in nests built on house and building overhangs.

In the UFRA area: This bird has an abundant spatial distribution. It has been spotted in exotic woods, wetlands with herbaceous plants, wetlands with riparian forests, in restored native forests, in mixed forests in regeneration, in drainage ditches, and in fields in spontaneous regeneration. Among these habitats, it prefers wetlands with herbaceous plants. This species is frequent, as it was spotted 45 times.