Tree Swallow
Tree Swallow (Tachycineta bicolor)
Species Code: TABI
Description: The tree swallow is about five inches long. It has a forked tail, metallic green to blue head, back and wing feathers and white feathers on its underside.
Tree Swallow (Tachycineta bicolor)
Tree Swallows are common throughout North Carolina during migration. They also breed in the Mountain region and in dead trees in the large man-made lakes in the Piedmont.
Tree Swallow (Tachycineta bicolor)
The Tree Swallow breeds in Canada, Alaska and most of the rest of the USA while it winters in the southern USA, Central America and the West Indies. It breeds in open areas near water and nests in tree holes.
Tree swallow Tachycineta bicolor
Identification Tips:
Length: 5 inches
Tiny bill
Iridiscent blue-green upperparts
White underparts
Forked tail
Female duller than male
Juvenile dull brown above and may have hint of a gray breast band ...
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Photo: Roland Jordahl ...
Tree Swallow (Tachycineta bicolor)
Length: about 5".
Photographed on May 23, 2005, along the refuge's Wildlife Loop (map).
Tree Swallow
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Tree Swallow
Relatives in same Genus
Violet-green Swallow (T. thalassina) ...
Song: Tree Swallow Song
Migration: Summers in much of Canada and the U.S. Summers in the extreme southern U.S. and points south.
Similar Species: Violet-Green Swallow, Purple Martin ...
Tree Swallow
Tachycineta bicolor
The Tree Swallow (Tachycineta bicolor) nests widely across most of the United States and Canada.
Tree Swallows breed across most of North America, roughly on a line from central California to the mid-Atlantic region, and northward to Canada.
Tree Swallow Behaviour
No observations regarding Tree Swallow behavior have been submitted to the database yet.
Interesting Facts about Tree Swallows ...
The tree swallow eat flying insects like beetles, horseflies, moths, grasshoppers and dragonflies. The search for insects over lands and water and catch their prey in the air. In the winter, they may feed on berries.
Tree Swallow
(Tachycineta bicolor)
Status: Summer Resident.
Last recorded on site in 2010
Breeding Status:-
1987 to 1991: Confirmed
1992 to 1996: Confirmed
1997 to 2001: Confirmed
2002 to 2006: Confirmed
2007 to 2011: Confirmed ...
Tree Swallow
Tachycineta bicolor (Vieillot)
Status Common in summer. Breeds.
The Tree Swallow lives primarily on a diet of insects. This agile flier is often observed flying swiftly over water catching flying insects.
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Tree Swallow
We often see the Tree Swallow (Tachycineta bicolor) in little wooden bird houses, which they seem almost to prefer to natural cavities.
Tree Swallow Tachycineta bicolor. Breeder. Common in winter, spring, and fall in Gulf Coast region. In Inland Coastal Plain, common in fall, fairly common in spring, and rare in winter.
Purple Martins and Tree Swallows feed primarily on flying insects. Purple Martins are cavity nesters and will nest in gourds and elaborate martin houses as well as nest boxes. Both prefer open areas near water.
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Duck feathers are not evidence of duck usage as tree swallows and starlings bring feathers in to line their nests.
Be careful when checking your boxes! Wasp and hornets build assorted paper nests and honey bees may build honeycombs.
Smaller cavity-nesting species, such as common grackles, tree swallows, barn swallows, European starlings and house sparrows build nests within osprey nests.
The species with the body shape most similar to that of the Purple Martin is the Tree Swallow. The Tree Swallow is completely white on its throat, neck, breast, and belly, coloration which differentiates it from the Purple Martin.
Tree swallow (Tachycineta bicolor)
Eurasian crag-martin (Hirundo rupestris)
Red-rumped swallow (Hirundo daurica)
African river-martin (Pseudochelidon eurystomina)
White-tailed swallow (Hirundo megaensis)
Blue swallow (Hirundo atrocaerulea) ...
Significant differences in abundance were not found, or differences were too inconsistent to make conclusions, for Killdeer, Barn Swallow, Cliff Swallow, Tree Swallow, Swamp Sparrow, Red-winged Blackbird, Yellow-headed Blackbird, Common Grackle, ...
Other flycatching birds, such as eastern phoebes (Sayornis phoebe), eastern wood-pewees (Cantopus virens), eastern kingbirds (Tyrannus tyrannus), tree swallows (Tachycineta bicolor), southern rough-winged swallows (Stelgidopteryx ruficollis), ...
Nest competitors include Mountain Bluebird (Sialia currucoides), Tree Swallow (Tachycineta bicolor), and European Starling. There was one recorded instance of a female Barrow's Goldeneye killing a Bufflehead adult female and her brood.
THE WHITE-BELLIED SWALLOW.
[Tree Swallow.]
HIRUNDO BICOLOR, Vieill.
[Tachycineta bicolor.] ...
Starlings will also sometimes drive off native birds, including the bluebirds (Sialia spp.), the Purple Martin (Progne subis), Tree Swallows (Iridoprocne bicolor), and some
of the smaller species of woodpecker.
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individuals occasionally forage or roost on campus. Small numbers nest in natural cavities and woodpecker holes (especially near the Dish), and occasionally in crevices and cavities in buildings on campus.....Similar Species: Tree Swallow ...
 See also: Swallow, Sparrow, Purple, Bluebird, Woodpecker
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