. Birds of New York. Birds. BIRDS OF NEW YORK OD' Haunts and habits. Like the White-breasted swallow, this species prefers to hunt its prey over the surface of the water and is most abundant along rivers, lakes and bays. It nests in large communities, sometimes thousands of holes being seen in the same sand bank, occasionally not more than a few inches apart. The excavations are from i8 inches to 3 feet in depth, the openings usually a flattened ellipse about 2 inches or inches in width and inches in vertical dimension. They are excavated by the birds themselves, and the end of the tun
. Birds of New York. Birds. BIRDS OF NEW YORK OD' Haunts and habits. Like the White-breasted swallow, this species prefers to hunt its prey over the surface of the water and is most abundant along rivers, lakes and bays. It nests in large communities, sometimes thousands of holes being seen in the same sand bank, occasionally not more than a few inches apart. The excavations are from i8 inches to 3 feet in depth, the openings usually a flattened ellipse about 2 inches or inches in width and inches in vertical dimension. They are excavated by the birds themselves, and the end of the tunnel is enlarged to contain. Young Bank swallows the nest of straws, grasses and feathers. The eggs are usually 5 in number, but vary from 4 to 6. They are pure white in color and average .68 by .48 inches in dimensions. About a sand bank inhabited by these little swallows one may frequently see thousands of birds in the air darting in and out of the holes, wheeling about in every direction, and keeping up a continuous reedy, buzzing twitter quite distinct from the notes of our other swallows. In the fall they gather in immense numbers on the tele- graph wires which cross the swamplands and edges of the lakes, and roost. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Eaton, Elon Howard, 1866-1934; Noyes, Nicholas H. fmo. Albany, University of the State of New York
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