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Hirundo_rustica_-_Barn_Swallow_-_XC83449.ogg (Ogg Vorbis sound file, length 19 s, 127 kbps, file size: 289 KB) This is a file from the Wikimedia Commons . Information from its description page there is shown below.
The barn swallow is a bird of open country that normally nests in man-made structures and consequently has spread with human expansion. It builds a cup nest from mud pellets in barns or similar structures and feeds on insects caught in flight. [5]
English: A European Barn Swallow, also known as Hirundo rustica, pauses to rest on a fence post beside a freshwater lake on Lindisfarne Island. Македонски: Селска ластовичка ( Hirundo rustica ) се одмора на дирек крај езеро на островот Линдисфарн кај Англија.
An artificial purple martin nesting colony The barn swallow is the national bird of Estonia. [48] They also are one of the most depicted birds on postage stamps around the world. [49] [50] [51] Swallows are tolerated by humans because of their beneficial role as insect eaters, and some species have readily adapted to nesting in and around human ...
A decade or more before Bakersfield became the spiritual home for country music in the Central Valley of California, there was the Big Fresno Barn. ... sound, played at the barn at least twice ...
George Clooney is paying tribute to his former “Ocean's Eleven” costar, "gentle soul" Scott L. Schwartz who has died at the age of 65. “I’m sorry to hear that Scott is gone,” Clooney, 63 ...
Herlda Senhouse, the second-oldest resident in the US, died in her sleep on Saturday at 113 years old. Senhouse died at her home in Wellesley, Massachusetts, where she had lived...
The bird genus Hirundo is a group of passerines in the family Hirundinidae (swallows and martins). The genus name is Latin for a swallow. [1] These are the typical swallows, including the widespread barn swallow.