Barn swallow (Hirundo rustica)

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Barn swallows have been closely associated with humans and their structures for more than 2,000 years in Europe. As a consequence of both its wide distribution and its nesting on accessible artificial structures near people, more papers have been published on this species than on any other swallow, and it is one of the most thoroughly studied birds in the world. This species account provides in detail the known information about the barn swallow's life history, including its distribution, migration, habitat, food habits, sounds, behavior, and breeding.

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ELECTRONIC FILE - Zoology (where there's a note only; access to online document requires a fee, though the original print version of this one (1999) should be available in the black boxed set housed in the Wildlife Bureau).

Recommended citation: Brown, Charles R. and Mary Bomberger Brown. 1999. Barn Swallow (Hirundo rustica), The Birds of North America Online (A. Poole, Ed.). Ithaca: Cornell Lab of Ornithology; Retrieved from the Birds of North America Online: http://bna.birds.cornell.edu/bna/species/452
doi:10.2173/bna.452.

SWAP (2/19/2016) citation:
Brown CR, Brown MB. 1999. Barn swallow (Hirundo rustica). The Birds of North America Online. (A Poole, editor). Ithaca: Cornell Lab of Ornithology. [accessed 2015 Jun 01]. http://bna.birds.cornell.edu/bna/species/452