Bluebirds and Tree Swallows nesting together in paired boxes

Eastern Bluebirds and Tree Swallows often compete for nest boxes, but when they are offered 2 boxes within 10' - 15' apart they will often both nest successfully once they settle who gets which box. For more on pairing boxes and bluebird - Tree Swallow competition and relationships see: http://www.treeswallowprojects.com/tresvsbb.html.

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Pets & Animals

Tags:

• Bluebird
• Tree
• Swallow
• nest
• box
• pairing
• reducing
• comppetition

[4444tresful]

Doesn't bother the young at all. Nestling bluebirds and tree swallows are routinely handled, weighed, banded, measured, etc., when they're small, as the young in these two nests were. However, when they get near fledging they shouldn't be approached or handled - doing so might cause them to leave the nest prematurely.

[4444tresful]

Tree Swallows prefer to line their nests with white feathers, and will go long distances to find them. However, some will also use a variety of other feathers, such as goose, duck and other waterfowl or wetland bird feathers, as the Tree Swallows in this video have..

[Soundgarden8497]

scare the shit out of the babies doing that

[karenpato1]

The tree swallows have the white feathers in their nests.