bank swallow

Birds which prefer the wetland habitat include kingfishers and bank swallows.

They are similar in appearance to the Bank Swallow but have a dusky throat and breast.

"We Bank Swallows like our homes close together.

It has also been observed eating small mammals and birds, such as bank swallows and eastern meadowlarks.

Animals adapted to Revis Hill include whitetail deer, turkey vultures and bank swallows.

Bank Swallow, Cornell Lab.

Least terns dive in the distance like pilots in a tailspin, and bank swallows soar in complete control of the sky.

The rivers around Missoula provide nesting habitats for bank swallows, northern rough-winged swallows and belted kingfishers.

Bank Swallow (Riparia riparia)

It was Banker the Bank Swallow, own cousin to Skimmer the Tree Swallow.

The headland cliffs within the quarry provide nesting sites for bank swallows, pelagic cormorants, and Brandt's cormorants.

(These two systems are responsible for the Sand Martin being called "Bank Swallow" in the New World.)

Occasionally, they have been found nesting in old, earthen burrows vacated by Belted Kingfishers or Bank Swallows.

Right in town, by the riverbank, are fat squawking ravens, darting and swooping bank swallows, crows, geese, ducks and an occasional bald eagle.

Heneberg, P. Size of sand grains as a significant factor affecting the nesting of bank swallows (Riparia riparia).

Sand Martins (called Bank Swallows in North America) are seldom, if ever, observed to nest in solitude; such a dependence on social nesting would term the bird a colonial nester.

It is known as Bank Swallow in North America, and as Collared Sand Martin in South Asia, and sometimes as European Sand Martin.

The Fort was constructed upon windswept headlands along the Pacific coast and Ocean Beach below, above steep sandstone cliffs that provide a nesting habitat for a colony of bank swallows (Riparia riparia).

XXII SOME FEATHERED DIGGERS The Bank Swallow, the Kingfisher and the Sparrow Hawk.

In this bank, above the clay, I counted in the summer, two hundred holes of the Bank Swallow within a space six rods long, and there were at least one thousand old birds within three times that distance, twittering over the surf.

They also prey on ground-nesting birds, such as Bank swallows and burrowing Owl, Lizards, Amphibians, Carrion, Fish, hibernating Skunks, Insects, including Bees and Honeycomb, and some plant foods, such as Corn and Sunflower seeds.