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Cliff Swallows and Pest Management

10,000 Birds

Cliff Swallows migrate to North America from their wintering grounds in South America to nest in large colonies, sometimes numbering in the thousands. In addition to their homing tendency, breeding swallows are attracted to old nests. Because IT IS ILLEGAL TO INTERFERE WITH NESTING BIRDS!!

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Migration is Dangerous

10,000 Birds

When songbirds endeavor to head hundreds or thousands of miles south they are risking everything in order to find a place that they can winter and hopefully survive in order to head back north and breed. American Crow carrying a road-killed bird Some birds die anonymously on their long trek – unmourned, unloved, and unknown.