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Tree Swallow

Tachycineta bicolor ORDER: PASSERIFORMES FAMILY: HIRUNDINIDAE

IUCN Conservation Status: Least Concern

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A common swallow of marshes and open fields, the Tree Swallow is a ready inhabitant of nest boxes.

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Calls

  • Song, calls
    Recorded by Randolph Scott Little
    • Courtesy of Macaulay Library
    © Cornell Lab of Ornithology.

Song a series of repeated whistles and twitters.

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