Violet-green Swallow (Tachycineta thalassina)

nps.gov Swallows of the family Hirundinidae are small, adept aerialists with long, pointed wings and deeply forked tails. Although their bills are short, their mouths are wide for capturing flying insects. Overall, swallows resemble swifts but have stronger, more fluid flight. Highly gregarious, they form large flocks and may be seen perched in long rows […]

Pest Bird Species Swallows

birdbusters.com Swallow Identification Cliff swallows and barn swallows are slender, sleek birds that spend their spring and summers in North America. Swallows are very territorial and will return to the same nesting site over and over. Building eaves and other structures often replace cliffs these days to build their distinctive mud pellet nests (see photo […]

Tree Swallows

coveside.com The Tree Swallow (Trachycineta bicolor) is common in any wooded habitat near lakes, streams or marshes. They nest in holes in dead trees, fence posts, eaves, and nesting boxes. The slender Tree Swallow is wonderful at aerial stunts, swooping and diving to catch flying insects.  Their reputation for catching mosquitoes far exceeds reality, as they generally […]

Kevin Myers: Buzzards are a novelty, and no threat to swallows, but the magpie had it coming


Belfast Telegraph, United Kingdom – Sep 14, 2014
Friday, September 14, 2014

Following this most accursed of summers, with the hay slain by the rain and lying in the muddy fields like lines of infantry on the Somme, the strangest things have been happening to our birdlife. Buzzards do not naturally live in this part of Leinster.
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Barn Swallow    Hirundo rustica

.floridaconservation.org The Barn Swallow, with its long, deeply forked tail, is the most widely distributed swallow in the world. The North American population breeds from southern Alaska and Canada to Mexico. The birds winter from Panama to South America. Barn Swallows are found throughout Florida during migration. They are a local and increasingly common breeder […]

Unobtrusive rough-winged swallow is worth noticing

Birmingham News, AL – Aug 27, 2014 Sunday, August 27, 2014 We were driving through the Black Belt looking for kites, storks, anhingas and gallinules, when I noticed skeins of swallows on the wire. Northern rough-winged swallows, they were – seemingly a mile of rough-winged swallows. They were, to the general public, little brown birds on a […]