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What are some facts about baby swallows?
Baby swallows usually hatch in May. They start out inside creamy or pinkish-white eggs splotched and dotted with reddish and purplish brown, weighing about 2 grams. They live in the egg for about 2 weeks.

How long do Barn Swallow babies stay in the nest?
18-24 days
Eggs incubate between 13-17 days and fledge after 18-24 days. However, chicks return to the nest after fledging for several weeks before they leave the nest for good. Swallow nests are made out of mud pellets, hair, grass, and feathers.

How many Barn Swallow babies survive?
As soon as pin-feathers develop, both parents leave the nest to find food. Swallow parents to share feeding equally. Babies must be fed every 20 minutes from dawn to dusk, for over 12 hours every day. If one parent dies, only 2 babies survive!

What are 3 facts about swallows?
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Key information. Swallows are small birds with dark, glossy-blue backs, red throats, pale underparts, and long tail streamers. They are extremely agile in flight and spend most of their time on the wing. They are widespread breeding birds in the Northern Hemisphere, migrating south in winter.

How long do swallows stay in one place?
A single nest may be occupied for up to two months, and birds may be present for up to 100 days at a large colony with multiple nests. The California Department of Fish and Game considers Feb. 15 to Sept. 1 the nesting season for enforcement purposes.

What do you do if you find a baby barn swallow?
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It is just fine to touch them! Birds do not abandon their chicks if they happen to smell differently; that is a myth. If the nest is out of reach, be sure to put the baby out of harm's way and within sight of the nest, and mom will do the rest!

Do barn swallows return to the same nest every year?
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Each year, about 44 percent of all barn swallows will return to nest in the same area they nested in the previous year. If the birds decide to renovate their old nest, they begin by throwing out and replacing old nesting material and adding more mud around the nest's rim.

Do barn swallows mate for life?
Do Swallows pair for life? Once established pairs stay together to breed for life, returning to the same breeding ground to raise their young, both sexes defending the nest with the male being very territorial.

What do baby barn swallows eat?
Insects
Diet. Insects. Feeds on a wide variety of flying insects, especially flies (including house flies and horse flies), beetles, wasps, wild bees, winged ants, and true bugs. Also eats some moths, damselflies, grasshoppers, and other insects, and a few spiders and snails.

How do you tell the difference between male and female barn swallows?
The female is similar in appearance to the male, but the tail streamers are shorter, the blue of the upper parts and breast band is less glossy, and the underparts paler. The juvenile is browner and has a paler rufous face and whiter underparts. It also lacks the long tail streamers of the adult.

Do barn swallows have diseases?
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Barn swallows do carry diseases, including histoplasmosis, encephalitis, salmonella, cryptococcosis, and toxoplasmosis. These swallow illnesses are spread by contact with the swallow's feces, nest materials, and dead swallows.