Violet-green Swallow

Status One sight record. A bird believed to be of this species was seen by John and Rachel Erskine on 30 October 1965 at Crescent Beach, Lunenburg County, hawking about over a salt marsh, at times within a few metres of them. Mr. Erskine had been familiar with the species when he had lived in Oregon some years earlier and he clearly saw "the white spots on the sides of the bird's rump."

Remarks The Violet-green Swallow is a very rare vagrant east of the mid-western part of the continent. The only other record in the general region was in New Hampshire in mid-September of the same year.