Northern Rough-winged Swallows

Stelgidopteryx serripennis

Northern Rough-winged Swallows are stocky with brown upperparts, pale under parts and have pale brown throats. Their tails are squared and they have white undertail coverts. Sexes are similar.

Swallow Photos

By |2022-03-05T10:22:55-07:00March 5th, 2022|Categories: Bank Swallows, Barn Swallows, Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge, Birds, Box Elder County, Cliff Swallows, Morgan County, Northern Rough-winged Swallows, Tooele County, Tree Swallows, Utah, Violet-green Swallows, Wasatch Mountains, West Desert|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , |

Today I wanted to share swallow photos that show the six species of swallows I see and photograph in northern Utah while they are here for their nesting season.

Beautiful Swallows and the Ugly Sack of Crap

By |2024-03-17T05:39:46-06:00June 21st, 2018|Categories: Birds, Morgan County, Northern Rough-winged Swallows, Utah|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , |

The sack of crap was open, it doesn't matter to me if they left it open or if a critter opened it but that sack of crap was what was attracting the Northern Rough-winged Swallows and photos of these birds with dog waste shouldn't exist, yet now they do.

Northern Rough-winged Swallow In A Wasatch Mountain Canyon

By |2021-04-14T12:27:04-06:00June 12th, 2018|Categories: Birds, Morgan County, Northern Rough-winged Swallows, Utah|Tags: , , , , , , , , , |

Of the photos that I took that morning I liked this one Rough-winged Swallow the most because I could see its entire body while the other swallow had the out of focus perch in front of the body of the bird.

Perched Northern Rough-winged Swallow

By |2021-04-14T12:31:28-06:00April 6th, 2013|Categories: Birds, Farmington Bay Waterfowl Management Area, Northern Rough-winged Swallows, Utah|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , |

Northern Rough-winged Swallows have a wide range in North America but because of their drab colors they are often overlooked by bird photographers, they are the "plain brown bird" of the swallow family.

It has only been 4 days? Really?

By |2016-12-07T12:14:43-07:00May 19th, 2011|Categories: Birds, Clark's Grebes, Double-crested Cormorants, Jordan River Parkway Trail, Northern Rough-winged Swallows, Salt Lake County, Utah|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , |

For days it has been raining (sometimes hailing), cloudy and a miserable gray here in the Salt Lake Valley though it seems like two weeks to this bird photographer.

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