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• n  bluish-green-and-white North American swallow; nests in tree cavities
• n  of Australia and Polynesia; nests in tree cavities

• white-bellied swallow
• Iridoprocne bicolor
• tree martin
• Hirundo nigricans

News & Articles

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• Summertime Swallows Tree swallows are among Iowa’s most widespread nesting migrators
  Caution is always the better part of valor when it comes to approaching a tree swallow nest box. If you don’t pay attention, you run the risk of being dive-bombed and potentially plunked on the head by a particularly protective tree swallow parent. Tree swallows, with their bright white breasts surrounded by iridescent deep blue backs, heads and wings, and shallow-forked tails, are fanciful ...
  July 5, 2013 - Go Cyclones