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Cliff Swallows

Petrochelidon pyrrhonota

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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5 Comments

Ava T-B
Ava T-B 12 years ago

I think the white on their faces is because they are still babies. It's their "put food right here" marking.

Ava T-B
Ava T-B 12 years ago

Click on "edit this spotting" and then go down from there to your missions, and click on "Nests, hives..."

StudentOfLife
StudentOfLife 12 years ago

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
Gordon Dietzman 12 years ago

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_Swallo... and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cliff_Swall... 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
Ava T-B 12 years ago

Please consider adding this lovely spotting to the Animal Architecture mission at http://www.projectnoah.org/missions/8082...

StudentOfLife
Spotted by
StudentOfLife

Toledo, Ohio, USA

Spotted on Jul 13, 2010
Submitted on Mar 15, 2012

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