NOUN
- bluish-green-and-white North American swallow; nests in tree cavities
- of Australia and Polynesia; nests in tree cavities
How To Use tree swallow In A Sentence
- However, only terrestrial species have been tested, such as barn swallows, tree swallows, dunnocks, alpine accentors, and acorn woodpeckers.
- Also, Tree Swallows do not defend foraging areas, so dispersal does not affect access to food.
- Parent tree swallows deliver food to nestlings in a bolus, making it difficult to determine either the quantity or quality of food.
- House sparrows and starlings seem to not care for the design of the house but tree swallows, bluebirds, chickadees and wrens really like it.
- The following spring, other birds - including bluebirds, tree swallows, house wrens and a host of other secondary cavity-nesting species - scout out and lay claim to these secondhand houses.
- If you haven't attracted bluebirds or tree swallows by late spring, close your box up or take it down, but do not let English sparrows, vicious predators, take over any box.
- House sparrows and starlings seem to not care for the design of the house but tree swallows, bluebirds, chickadees and wrens really like it.
- Birds in flocks so dense that they resembled smoke clouds: thousands of tree swallows, wave after wave of American robins.
- Fall, of course, is the best time to see migrants: peregrine falcons, merlins, and flocks of tree swallows at Assateague; northern gannets just offshore; and plenty of Canadian and snow geese soaring above.
- Woodpeckers, screech owls, chickadees, nuthatches, bluebirds, tree swallows and some flycatchers need them.