Look For The cliff swallow is small bird with a tiny, black beak and a short, squared-off tail. The adult cliff swallow has a bluish-black back and crown with a dull yellowish-white patch on its forehead. It has a copper-red face, off-white underparts, and brown wings and tail. It also has a pale orange-brown rump […]
Look For Only 5 to 51/2 inches long, the northern rough-winged swallow is brown-backed with dirty-white underparts, a short notched tail, and narrow pointed wings. The rough-winged swallow lacks the distinct dark breast band of the bank swallow. Its legs are short, and its feet adapted more for perching than for walking. For such a
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Look for Our largest swallow (at 8 inches), the purple martin is a graceful flyer with a bubbly, liquid song. The adult male has a deep blue body and black wings and tail. Females and youngsters are gray and black with some blue on the back. In flight, martins can be confused with European starlings,
Look for One early naturalist estimated that a barn swallow that lived 10 years would fly more than two million miles, enough to travel 87 times around the earth. This species seems to define what it means to be at home in the air, and it has been compared to an albatross in its ability
