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I really felt like these juveniles were communicating. There was no food exchange. The older one was saying to the younger one "Soon you're gonna have to leave your favorite tree because we have a very long trip to make. Don't worry, you'll be ok.
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Swallows are small birds with dark, glossy-blue backs, red throats, pale underparts and long tail streamers. They are extremely agile in flight and spend most of their time on the wing. They are widespread breeding birds in the Northern Hemisphere, migrating south in winter.
Swallow numbers in the UK have fluctuated over the last 30 years with pronounced regional variation in trends.
Taken @ Kidwelly quay.....distant shot with large crop
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(Creagrus furcatus) This is the only fully nocturnal gull and seabird in the world, preying on squid and small fish which rise to the surface at night to feed on plankton. In order to see while hunting for food at night, the swallow-tailed gull's eyes are larger in size and volume than those of any other gull. They also possess a tapetum lucidum in the back of the eye that reflects light back through the retina, increasing the amount of light available to the photoreceptor cells.
Bird on a Wire
Young swallow
The swallows, martins, and saw-wings, or Hirundinidae, are a family of passerine birds found around the world on all continents, including occasionally in Antarctica. Highly adapted to aerial feeding, they have a distinctive appearance. The term "swallow" is used colloquially in Europe as a synonym for the barn swallow. Around 90 species of Hirundinidae are known, divided into 19 genera, with the greatest diversity found in Africa, which is also thought to be where they evolved as hole-nesters. They also occur on a number of oceanic islands. A number of European and North American species are long-distance migrants; by contrast, the West and South African swallows are non-migratory. Source Wikipedia.
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Barn Swallows love the insects that we humans consider pesky, [mosquito] especially mosquitoes, gnats, and flying termites. A single Barn Swallow can consume 60 insects per hour or a whopping 850 per day. That's 25,000 fewer insects per month that might have joined your summer barbecue.
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A Barn Swallow (Hirundo rustica) preens the ruffles in its tail feathers while roosting in a cattail marsh northwest of Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.
19 May, 2021.
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Barn Swallow taking a rest from feeding the young brood.
Species: Hirundo rustica.
The barn swallow is the most widespread species of swallow in the world. In fact, it appears to have the largest natural distribution of any of the world's passerine. It is a distinctive passerine bird with blue upperparts and a long, deeply forked tail. Wikipedia.
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In spite of all the trouble that the swallows had trying to nest in our yard, they managed to raise 4 babies. 9 eggs were taken by a Wren and white feathers were removed from the box. But oddly enough, when I dropped some darker feathers in the box, the wren did not remove those. But I think the successful parents were a different pair. The first male was hardly ever around but these two were the most attentive parents that I have ever seen in our yard. I hardly had a chance to take any pictures because as soon as one left the box, the other one immediately went in. They were a pleasure to watch but not so easy to take photos of because they hardly ever sat still. Taken in my yard in Calgary, Alberta.
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Was so lucky to get this shot. The light was terrible and I was busy trying to get a shot of the many whitethroat on the hedge line. So for that I had the shutter speed very low to keep the ISO down. When this bit of action happened I forgot to up the shutter speed. Fortunately a couple of images hat the adult swallow still enough, the rest were a blur.
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I saw this swallow playing with a feather it plucked from the water moving in the wind. I hoped it land near me and it did.
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Wikipedia: The barn swallow (Hirundo rustica) is the most widespread species of swallow in the world. It is a distinctive passerine bird with blue upperparts and a long, deeply forked tail. It is found in Europe, Asia, Africa and the Americas.
It is fun to watch Swallow-tailed Kites fly. They sometimes tilt their forked tail at an angle to their wings and go through the air seemingly effortlessly. It's a good think because they are one of the species that migrates up to ten thousand miles. We have them here in Florida in the Spring and Summer where they come to breed. Before leaving, they form large groups that kettle in the updrafts. Drive around Florida this time of year and you're very likely to see a few soaring above the tree tops, their primary hunting grounds for lizards, frogs and insects, as the one shown here. (Elanoides forficatus)
The swallows were flying over the pond, grabbing the insects. After many tries, I finally got a keeper!
These swallows were flying around the field and at this point, it appears that their is some strong attention aimed at the female.
Barn Swallow The barn swallow's long, forked tail gives it that typical swallow look. Originally it built its nest on rocks or in caves, now it chooses farmyards with their 24 hours insect buffet.Its back and head are shiny blue-black, its belly cream-colored. But the best way to recognize the barn swallow is without a doubt its red-brown chin, throat and forehead. Barn swallows build their nests in accessible barns, stables and sheds. If you leave its nests intact, the migratory bird is guaranteed to return next year.