Bank Swallow Images

Bank Swallow Images, Facts and Information:

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• Bank Swallows are small swallows with brown upperparts, white underparts, brown breast bands and notched tails. Sexes are similar. They appear to have large heads when compared to body size.
• Bank Swallows are migratory. Bank Swallows breed from Alaska across northern Canada then south to California, Texas and North Carolina. Bank Swallows spend winters in the tropics and in some parts of Europe.
• Bank Swallows are found near water during the breeding season, migration and during winter. Their preferred habits include creeks, streams, marshes, seashores, lakes and riverbanks.
• Bank Swallows feed on beetles, moths, leafhoppers, termites, treehoppers, spiders, ants, and flies. They forage on the wing and on the ground at times.
• Bank Swallows lay 3 to 7 eggs which hatch in 14 to 16 days. Both sexes incubate and they are monogamous.
• A group of Bank Swallows can be called a “foreclosure” of swallows.
• Bank Swallows can live to be more than 8 years of age.

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