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Cliff Swallows

Petrochelidon pyrrhonota

Photo by StudentOfLife
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Description:

Chicks spotted in their nest on the ceiling of the entryway of a building at the Toledo, OH zoo. July, 2010.

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Cliff Swallow

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Comments (5)
Ava T-B
I think the white on their faces is because they are still babies. It's their "put food right here" marking.
Ava T-B
Click on "edit this spotting" and then go down from there to your missions, and click on "Nests, hives..."
StudentOfLife
Hello Ava T-B, I joined yoir mission. Now to figure out how to upload photos there. Gordon, I was thinking these might be barn swallows, as i grew up in Ks I've seen my fair share...they LOVE to build their mud nests on the underside of overpasses there...it's incredible...hundreds of nests all together in a mass! The thing that threw me though is the white on their faces....I've never seen this on barn swallows I've seen.
Gordon Dietzman
Cliff swallows typically have a white patch on the forehead and build their nests with an entrance hole in the side. I suspect these are actually barn swallows. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barn_Swallow and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cliff_Swallow for more information. Like the bird's choice of nesting sites though...grin. That looks like a light fixture they built their nest on. Hopefully, no one turned on the light for any length of time as the nest would have gotten pretty hot.
Ava T-B
Please consider adding this lovely spotting to the Animal Architecture mission at http://www.projectnoah.org/missions/8082378

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PublishedMarch 15, 2012

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