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unusual facts about swallows



American Cliff Swallow

The "Capistrano Swallows" are now nesting in the Chino Hills of Southern California, north of San Juan Capistrano.

These are the famous swallows whose return from Villa Ventana, Argentina every year to the Mission San Juan Capistrano in California on (or around) March 19 is celebrated with a festival.

Blue Swallow

In poor light, blue swallows appear almost black and therefore can be mistaken for black saw-wing swallows (Psalidoprocne spp.) which occur throughout its breeding range.

British Aircraft Swallow

A number of Swallows were taken on charge during late 1940 by the Royal Air Forces Glider Training Squadron within the Central Landing Establishment based at RAF Ringway near Manchester.

Coat of arms of Sussex

The device, displaying six martlets or heraldic swallows on a shield, later formed the basis of the flag of Sussex and the armorial bearings granted to the county councils of East and West Sussex.

Garden of the Gods

The park is also home to more than 130 species of birds including white-throated swifts, swallows and canyon wrens.

Great Northern?

In this book, the three families of major characters in the series, the Swallows (the Walker family), the Amazons (the Blackett sisters) and the Ds (the two Callums), are all reunited in a book for the first time since Pigeon Post.

Hirotoshi Ishii

The Swallows were reluctant to release Ishii in the 2005 off-season, but promised they would allow him to come to the majors if he was able to play another full season in Japan (a similar promise was made to Akinori Iwamura, who signed with the Tampa Bay Devil Rays).

Johnny Patterson

Between 1865-1867, he was a drummer performing in a circus run by Pablo Fanque, the black English circus proprietor, and John Swallows.

Los Flamencos National Reserve

Tambillo contains similar fauna to the other sections of the reserve, including the Andean Flamingo, Chilean Flamingo, Horned Coot, Silvery Grebe, Andean Gull, Greenish Yellow Finch, Grey fox, Andean Fox, Chincol (Zonotrichia capensis), swallows, and falcons.

Metaldehyde

In chapter 5 of Missee Lee from Arthur Ransome's Swallows and Amazons series, Susan of the Swallows is shown using meta fuel to preheat a Primus stove.

Psaltoda moerens

The redeye and related black prince are favoured food items of the Noisy Friarbird, which swallows them head-first and whole.

Shinichi Sato

He currently works as a batting coach under Tokyo Yakult Swallows manager Junji Ogawa.

Siyabonga Sangweni

Due to him being very instrumental in the Pirates treble winning of the season, he was nominated as a Footballer of the Season which eventually went to the League's leading goalscorer, Siyabonga Nomvethe of Swallows.

Swallows and Amazons

Released by EMI in 1974, directed by Claude Whatham and produced by Richard Pilbrow, the film starred Virginia McKenna and Ronald Fraser in the main adult roles and Sophie Neville (Titty), Zanna Hamilton (Susan), Simon West (John) & Stephen Grendon (Roger) as the Swallows.

Tumbes Swallow

All Tachycineta swallows are known to be exclusive insectivores; only identified prey include Diptera, Coleoptera, Hymenoptera, Hemiptera, and Aranae.

Unladen Swallow

Like many things regarding the Python language, "Unladen Swallow" is a Monty Python reference, specifically to the gag about the airspeed velocity of unladen swallows in Monty Python and the Holy Grail.

W. G. Collingwood

He used the names of some of Collingwood's grandchildren for his characters, the Swallows (see Roger Altounyan).

You're Summer

The most intriguing line of this song is "Oh your breasts are like swallows in nesting", written by the well-known poet Lars Forssell, member of the Swedish Academy.

Zeina Abirached

It was published by the Graphic Universe division of Lerner Publishing Group in 2012 under the title A Game for Swallows: To Die, To Leave, To Return.


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