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August 19, 2012 | By:  Eric Sawyer
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Bird of the Week: Barn Swallow

This week's bird is the barn swallow.

Barn swallows can be found darting about foraging for flying insects and flying low to the water as well. They love to build their muddy nest cups under bridges, docks, and the like. And they're not afraid to defend them by dive-bombing unsuspecting undergraduate molecular biologists-in-training.

They have deeply forked tails that are a product of sexual selection.

Image Credits (in order of appearance):

1. Walter Siegmund (via Wikimedia)

2. Walter Siegmund (via Wikimedia)

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