Tree Swallow Images and Information:
Tachycineta bicolor
- Tree Swallows are medium-sized swallows with white underparts and iridescent blue upperparts, they have forked tails, dark eyes and bills.
- Tree Swallows are migratory and they winter further north than other North American Swallows.
- During the breeding season Tree Swallows prefer habitat includes marshes, fields, meadows, shorelines, ponds, and wooded swamps. They nest in cavities in trees and man made nest boxes.
- Tree Swallows feed mostly on insects caught in flight. They also eat seeds, berries and spiders.
- Tree Swallows lays 4 to 6 eggs which hatch in 13 to 16 days. The females incubate and they are polygamous.
- A group of Tree Swallows is known as a “stand” of swallows.
- Tree Swallows can live to be more than 12 years of age.
I hope you enjoy viewing my Tree Swallow photos.
Tree Swallow portrait at aspen nest
Title: Tree Swallow portrait at aspen nest
Location: Uinta Mountains, Uinta National Forest, Summit County, Utah
Date: 6/7/2022
Tree Swallow clinging to nest entrance
Title: Tree Swallow clinging to nest entrance
Location: Uinta Mountains, Uinta National Forest, Summit County, Utah
Date: 6/7/2022
Adult female Tree Swallow outside of her nest
Title: Adult female Tree Swallow outside of her nest
Location: Uinta Mountains, Uinta National Forest, Summit County, Utah
Date: 6/7/2022
Tree Swallow peeking out of a natural nesting cavity in the High Uintas
Title: Tree Swallow peeking out of a natural nesting cavity in the High Uintas
Location: Uinta Mountains, Uinta National Forest, Summit County, Utah
Date: 6/7/2022
Tree Swallow warming up on a road
Title: Tree Swallow warming up on a road
Location: Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge, Box Elder County, Utah
Date: 4/12/2021
Immature Tree Swallow in soft morning light
Title: Immature Tree Swallow in soft morning light
Location: Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge, Box Elder County, Utah
Date: 9/4/2019
Tree Swallow on a U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service sign
Title: Tree Swallow on a U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service sign
Location: Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge, Box Elder County, Utah
Date: 5/2/2019
Spring Tree Swallows at Bear River MBR
Title: Spring Tree Swallows at Bear River MBR
Location: Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge, Box Elder County, Utah
Date: 4/8/2019
Spring Tree Swallows in the marsh
Title: Spring Tree Swallows in the marsh
Location: Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge, Box Elder County, Utah
Date: 4/8/2019
Male Tree Swallow at a nesting cavity in an Aspen
Title: Male Tree Swallow at a nesting cavity in an Aspen
Location: Uinta Mountains, Uinta National Forest, Summit County, Utah
Date: 5/31/2018
Close up of a male Tree Swallow at a nesting cavity
Title: Close up of a male Tree Swallow at a nesting cavity
Location: Uinta Mountains, Uinta National Forest, Summit County, Utah
Date: 5/31/2018
Male Tree Swallow close up
Title: Male Tree Swallow close up
Location: Uinta Mountains, Uinta National Forest, Summit County, Utah
Date: 5/31/2018
Close up Tree Swallow perched on a fence post
Title: Close up Tree Swallow perched on a fence post
Location: Red Rock Lakes National Wildlife Refuge, Centennial Valley, Beaverhead County, Montana
Date: 7/10/2017
Female Tree Swallow at nest entrance
Title: Female Tree Swallow at nest entrance
Location: Uinta Mountains, Uinta National Forest, Summit County, Utah
Date: 6/28/2016
Male Tree Swallow at nest entrance
Title: Male Tree Swallow at nest entrance
Location: Uinta Wasatch Cache National Forest, Summit County, Utah
Date: 6/28/2016
Tree Swallow near Modoc Creek
Title: Tree Swallow near Modoc Creek
Location: Modoc Creek, Targhee National Forest, Clark County, Idaho
Date: 6/2/2016
Male Tree Swallow in Idaho
Title: Male Tree Swallow in Idaho
Location: Modoc Creek, Targhee National Forest, Clark County, Idaho
Date: 6/2/2016
Perched Tree Swallow adult calling
Title: Perched Tree Swallow adult calling
Location: Modoc Creek, Targhee National Forest, Clark County, Idaho
Date: 6/2/2016
Low light Tree Swallow
Title: Low light Tree Swallow
Location: Modoc Creek, Targhee National Forest, Clark County, Idaho
Date: 6/2/2016
Tree Swallow on top of a nesting box
Title: Tree Swallow on top of a nesting box
Location: Red Rock Lakes National Wildlife Refuge, Centennial Valley, Beaverhead County, Montana
Date: 6/11/2015