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	bank swallow, Riparia riparia
		The bank swallow is one of the most widely ranging of all the species in the swallow family.
		Bank swallows are usually fairly successful in nesting unless there is a period of cold rainy weather right when they need the most food for the growing nestlings.
		Because they are dependent on the spring abundance of flying insects to feed their young, bank swallows usually have only one brood a year and if something happens to the nest before the young fledge the parents usually do not try to breed again that year.
	www.denniskalma.com /bankswallow.html (871 words)

	Bank Swallow
		The Bank Swallow is a colonial nesting bird which normally nests along river banks but due to human encroachment they have altered their nest site selection to utilize quarry slag piles.
		In recent years the number of these swallows seems to be declining, but it is not known whether this is because of the loss of sites for breeding colonies due to development, loss of food in the summer habitats due to pesticides, or destruction of habitats in the wintering areas.
		Bank Swallows are usually successful in nesting unless there is a period of cold rainy weather right when they need the most food for the growing nestlings.
	www.shawcreekbirdsupply.com /bank_swallow_info.htm (846 words)

	Bank Swallow or Sand Martin
		The banks of the Ohio, and some parts of those of the Mississippi, called "Bluffs," have appeared to me to be most resorted to by this species in our western and southern districts, although I have met with considerable numbers in every State of the Union.
		On the sea-coast, where soft banks are frequent, you might suppose that, as the burrows are only a few inches apart, the sand might fall in so as to obstruct the holes and suffocate their inmates; but I have not met with an instance of such a calamitous occurrence.
		Along the banks of small rivulets, I have found these birds having nests within a foot or two of the water having been bored among the roots of some large trees, where I thought they were exposed to mice, rats, or other small predaceous animals.
	www.abirdshome.com /Audubon/VolI/00078.html (2233 words)

	swallow - definition by dict.die.net
		Note: The most common North American species are the barn swallow (see under Barn), the cliff, or eaves, swallow (see under Cliff), the white-bellied, or tree, swallow ( Tachycineta bicolor), and the bank swallow (see under Bank).
		Swallow shrike (Zo["o]l.), any one of several species of East Indian and Asiatic birds of the family Artamiid[ae], allied to the shrikes but similar to swallows in appearance and habits.
		The ashy swallow shrike ( Artamus fuscus) is common in India.
	dict.die.net /swallow (447 words)

	CALIFORNIA'S PLANTS AND ANIMALS
		Bank swallows are distinguished from other swallows by their distinct brown breast band contrasting with white underparts.
		Currently, bank swallows are locally common only in restricted portions of California where sandy, vertical bluffs or riverbanks are available for the birds to dig their burrows and nest in colonies.
		The group discusses bank swallow research and recovery issues, and the group has also cited the return to naturally functioning riparian ecosystems as the best way to preserve, recover, and conserve the many species, including the bank swallow, that are dependent on this unique ecosystem.
	www.dfg.ca.gov /hcpb/cgi-bin/read_one.asp?specy=birds&idNum=81 (836 words)

	mission (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Riparia riparia, implies, the Bank Swallow is largely found in riparian ecosystems, particularly rivers in the larger lowland valleys of northern California.
		Bank Swallow nests, because of their placement in vertical faces of banks and bluffs, are generally devoid of vegetation around the nest burrow.
		Bank Swallows tend to forage in areas that support large amounts of insect biomass, and reproductive success does not appear to be food limited because colonies are generally located in areas with sufficient insect resources.
	www.fortfunstondog.org /chpt4.htm (2964 words)

	Birds of Nova Scotia - Bank Swallow (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Watching a large colony when parents are feeding their young, one is impressed by their ability to tell which nest is their own and by the general lack of confusion and animosity that prevails in the midst of much activity.
		But the swallows continue to do as they have done for uncounted generations and seem quite capable of maintaining their numbers under the traditional arrangement.
		Lloyd B. Macpherson suggests that Bank Swallows may choose the top of an embankment because the earth there is more readily excavated than at lower elevations where the compressed subsoil makes digging more difficult.
	museum.gov.ns.ca /mnh/nature/nsbirds/bns0258.htm (462 words)

	Birds: the swallow (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Bank swallows are a smaller variety, measuring between four and one half to five and one half inches in length.
		The Bank swallow, as its name implies, is found living in nest burrows at the sides of steep river banks and sand quarries.
		Swallows feed their nestlings by rolling insects into a compact ball and carrying them back to the nest in their throat.
	ks.essortment.com /birdsswallows_rkfy.htm (816 words)

	Bank Swallows
		The bank swallow is the smallest of the swallows found in the United States.
		Check out the tails of passing swallows when making an identification - the barn swallow has a deeply forked tail, the tree swallow's tail is squared and the bank swallow is somewhere in between, with a notched tail.
		In Europe the bank swallow is known as the sand martin.
	www.menunkatuck.org /pages/bank_swallows.htm (508 words)

	Birds, Familiar: Tree Swallow, Life Histories of North American Birds, A.C. Bent
		The tree swallow commonly nests in isolated pairs, showing none of the strictly communal habits of the purple martin and the cliff swallow, but the birds are frequently found nesting in groups, their nests scattered about, not far apart, in favorable feeding localities.
		In the air the tree swallow resembles somewhat the purple martin, the similarity being due probably to the triangular shape of the wing in both birds--a triangle with a sharp apex and a fairly broad base.
		The bank swallow is readily distinguished from the tree swallow by its habit of hugging its wings close to the side of its body when it sails and by the suggestion of soft fluttering in the motion of its wings.
	home.bluemarble.net /~pqn/ch81-90/treeswallow.html (5657 words)

	The Bank Swallow (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		This graceful, brown and white swallow is usually observed on the wing, in aerial pursuit of the flying insects that are its dietary mainstay.
		Each bird in a colony is able to locate its own burrow from memory, but after the young fledge (at the age of 18 or 19 days), the adults avoid feeding the wrong offspring by recognizing the distinctive vocalizations of their own brood.
		Bank Swallows arrive in the Connecticut Valley in early May and remain here only long enough to breed and build up enough body fat for their migratory journey.
	www.bio.umass.edu /biology/conn.river/bankswal.html (319 words)

	Friends of Saguaro National Park - About Us: About Saguaro National Park: Tree Swallow (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The Violet-green Swallow has white patches that extend further onto the sides of the rump, a white area that extends behind and over the eye and greener upperparts.
		Bank Swallow is smaller, this feature is especially noticeable as mixed flocks of swallows often sit on telephone wires.
		Bank has a dark breast band that is lacking or indistinct in the Tree.
	www.friendsofsaguaro.org /swallow-tree.html (198 words)

	Beachfront Property: Bank Swallows Dig in at Fort Funston
		Nesting bank swallows have two primary needs: vertical bluffs with soils friable enough to dig into (yet stable enough not to collapse easily), and ready access to freshwater habitats where flying insects are plentiful.
		Bank swallows have made their home here for at least 100 years, ever since their prior feeding grounds were dried up by the 1880 damming of a stream that ran from Lake Merced to the sea along what is now Sloat Boulevard.
		The bank swallow was listed as a California Species of Special Concern in 1979, and a 1998 DFG report indicated that the state’s population remains unstable.
	www.baynature.com /2005julysept/fortfunston.html (2422 words)

	Define Bank swallow : powered by In Dictionary (InDicitonary.com) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The tilt of a roadway or railroad, at a curve in the road, designed to counteract centrifugal forces acting on vehicles moving rapiudly around the curve, thus reducing the danger of overturning during a turn.
		Bank swallow \Bank" swal"low\ See under 1st Bank, n.
		bank swallow n : swallow of the northern hemisphere that nests in tunnels dug in clay or sand banks [syn: bank martin, sand martin, Riparia riparia ]
	www.indictionary.com /define/Bank_swallow (372 words)

	Photo Quiz (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		A Bank Swallow would have whiter underparts and a paler rump.
		Barn Swallows of all ages are bluish on the upperparts.
		That leaves Northern Rough-winged Swallow which is what our quiz bird is. We can go a step further and age this individual; a juvenile NRWS would have rusty wingbars.
	www.illinoisbirds.org /early_summer_2004_photo_quiz.html (279 words)

	Plains Folk: Swallow Devotee (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The subject of this new book from University of Nebraska Press is not the barn swallow that nests in the eaves of our houses and outbuildings, nor the bank swallow in its stream-bank burrows, but rather the cliff swallow that today nests mainly in colonies under bridges and in culverts.
		His swallow summer is every bit as hard as a wheat harvest.
		At the rodeo in Ogallala, the scientists cheer for the calves, sympathizing with the animals that are being persecuted by the cowboys.
	www.ext.nodak.edu /extnews/newsrelease/1998/100198/12plains.htm (552 words)

	SimCorp Acquires BA Swallow Business Systems (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Swallow is recognised as a pioneer in treasury management systems and supplies the highly regarded IT/2.
		Bank of America decided to sell Swallow following a strategic internal review, which concluded that product development activities within Swallow could be more appropriately undertaken by a specialist financial software development company.
		Of primary concern to the bank was that the purchaser of Swallow would provide high levels of support and service to users of its treasury management systems, particularly as many of these are also customers of the bank's treasury management financial services.
	www.bankofamerica.com /newsroom/press/press.cfm?PressID=press.19990805.01.htm&LOBID=6 (586 words)

	Swallows (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The Swallows are specialized arboreal insectivores " instantly recognizable by their slender, streamlined bodies." They are "familiar birds throughout the world, often nesting in close association with people, even inside their homes.
		Swallows are indeed harbingers of spring and are among the first arriving migrants in California.
		Juvenal Tree Swallows begin flying as brown birds, when they can be confused with the often-rarer Bank Swallow (see Wilds 1985, Lethaby 1996), but change to the glistening steel-blue color of adults over time.
	montereybay.com /creagrus/swallows.html (1097 words)

	Birds - Bank Swallow
		The face of the high bank shows a number of clean, round holes indiscriminately bored into the sand, as if the place had just received a cannonading; but instead of war an atmosphere of peace pervades the place in midsummer, when you are most likely to visit it.
		The bank swallow's nest, like the kingfisher's, which it resembles, is his home as well.
		Closely associated with the sand martin is the Rough-winged Swallow (Stelgidopteryx serripennis), not to be distinguished from its companion on the wing, but easily recognized by its dull-gray throat and the absence of the brown breast-band when seen at close range.
	www.oldandsold.com /articles20/birds-76.shtml (343 words)

	KIRKFIELD LIFT LOCK (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		For the primary diet of the swallow family is flying insects, and in poor weather the insects are lower to the ground, and thus the swallow is too.
		Bank Swallows excavate tunnels in steep sandbanks and nest colonially.
		The Bank Swallow is the smallest swallow, with brownish-gray distinctive breast band and back, and white throat, ear patch and under parts.
	www.thecardenproject.com /guide/kirkfield_lift_lock.htm (1260 words)

	Birds, Familiar: Northern Rough-winged Swallow, Life Histories of North American Birds, A.C. Bent
		The rough-winged swallow was discovered by John James Audubon in Louisiana, but the description of the bird in his "Ornithological Biography" is based rather on specimens collected many years later at Charleston, S. C., which city is, therefore, the type locality.
		Bailey further says: "The height of the nesting cavity in the bank also varies greatly, the nature of the soil strata affecting the drilling of the hole, which is made by the birds using their feet to scratch with, and push the dirt backward out of the tunnel.
		Nests I have taken from sand banks along the South Carolina coast are 1 1/2 to 1 3/4 inches thick and are composed of grasses and rootlets.
	home.bluemarble.net /~pqn/ch81-90/rwswallow.html (3056 words)

	All About Birds (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The Bank Swallow nests in colonies in streamside banks across much of North America.
		The male Bank Swallow often pursues females other than its mate at the colony and attempts to mate with them.
		Juvenile Tree Swallow has brownish back and a faint band across chest, but the band is faintest in the middle and does not extend down the chest.
	birds.cornell.edu /programs/AllAboutBirds/BirdGuide/Bank_Swallow_dtl.html (199 words)

	Bank Swallow description
		Swallows of the family Hirundinidae are small, adept aerialists with long, pointed wings and deeply forked tails.
		Diet: The diet of the Bank Swallow is composed of mostly flying insects, although an occasional insect may be gleaned from the ground.
		Swallow species in general were not captured well using our survey technique, possibly because their activity peaked later in the day when insect populations were more active.
	www.nps.gov /yuch/Expanded/key_resources/birds/species_descriptions/bans_description.htm (588 words)

	Birds and Nature: The Bird of Consolation
		Of the true swallows none is more familiar than the barn swallow, whose nest adds a picturesque interest to the eaves of the building.
		The flight of the swallow is in the curved line, which is that of beauty, and is without effort or restraint.
		The bank swallow or sand martin is the cosmopolitan of birds, as it thrives equally well in Asia, Africa, Europe and America.
	nuthatch.birdnature.com /dec1901/consolation.html (543 words)

	Northern Rough-Winged Swallow
		This Swallow mostly feeds over water and eats flying insects such as flies, winged ants, wasps, and beetles.
		Has a slower, smoother wingbeat as compared to the "fluttery" wingbeat of the Bank Swallow.
		Is larger and lacks the breast band that the Bank Swallow has.
	www.bird-friends.com /BirdPage.php?name=Northern%20Rough-Winged%20Swallow (163 words)

	Journey North Signs of Spring
		The Cliff Swallow is the famous "Swallow of Capistrano." It's also sometimes called the "Republican Swallow." This has nothing to do with politics; Cliff Swallows nest in little communities which reminded an early ornithologist of little republics.
		The mud becomes shaped like pellets as the swallows pick it up and carry it in their mouths, and if you look closely at a swallow nest you'll see many of the individual mud pellets that make the nest.
		Bank Swallows burrow to build their nests in sand and gravel banks along rivers, gravel pits, highway embankments, and other places where they can burrow into soft soil or sand.
	www.learner.org /jnorth/tm/spring/SwallowFacts.html (963 words)

	N. Rough-winged Swallow
		Similar to the more common Bank Swallow, they are a bit larger and lack the well-defined breast band.
		These swallows nest alone, in very small groups, or on the periphery of Bank Swallow colonies where earthen banks occur near water.
		Banding studies show that these Swallows are short distance migrants, and experiments show that they have a strong ability to return to their nest burrow when displaced.
	www.wbu.com /chipperwoods/photos/rwswallow.htm (472 words)

	Bank Swallow colony (2002) - Geneva State Park, Ashtabula County Ohio
		The follow is a photoessay regarding an apparent Bank Swallow colony at Geneva State Park.
		Bank Swallows are not especially rare in Ohio, and are known to nest in Ashtabula County.
		As a biological aside, an assessment of the Ashtabula County shoreline, with its miles of weathered cliffs, for additional Bank Swallow colonies may be of more than passing interest.
	www.aves.net /OHIOBIRDINGSITES/geneva-sp-bankswallows-02.htm (398 words)

	Golondrinas - Hill Bank
		The Hill Bank Golondrinas Site is the first full-scale implementation of the techniques and data-collection methods that were developed over many years at the Golondrinas Site in Ithaca, New York.
		Hill Bank is a research/eco-tourism facility run by the Programme for Belize in the Rio Bravo area approximately 50 km WNW of Belize City.
		The station lies on the banks of the New River lagoon, from which the New River flows slowly north and east to the Gulf of Mexico.
	golondrinas.cornell.edu /pages/Sites/belize.html (336 words)

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