northeast-flora-and-fauna

I spotted this Barn Swallow at the Delaware Raritan Canal. Here's a joke originally about Barn Owls . Barn Swallows when humans first started building barns: "Oh yeah, it's all coming together!" In actuality, Barn Swallows do kind of like nesting in man-made structures, but don't require those structures to be barns. For a few years they were using a roofed bird blind at Negri-Nepote Native Grassland Preserve. In this case I believe the Barn Swallow may have been building a nest under a bridge at the canal. Though I'd like to think that Barn Swallows and Barn Owls would bond over their shared love of barns, I'm pretty sure that Barn Swallows are on the menu of the Barn Owls, seriously jeopardizing any neighborly relationship [1]. Barn Swallows are considered the most widespread swallow in the world, living on parts of every continent except Antarctica [2]. None of its closest relatives live in the New World, and its genus seems to be best represented in ...