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Cliff swallow (Hirundo pyrrhonota) with nests on a building.
Cliff swallow (Hirundo pyrrhonota) with nests on a building.

Anon. 1981. Bird control problem solved with netting. Pest Control 49:28-29.

Barclay, R. M. R. 1988. Variation in the costs, benefits, and frequency of nest reuse by barn swallows (Hirundo rustica). Auk 105:53-60.

Beal, F. E. L. 1918. Food habits of the swallows, a family of valuable native birds. US Dep. Agric. Bull. No. 619. 28pp.

Brown, C. R., and M. B. Brown. 1986. Ectoparasitism as a cost of coloniality in cliff swallows (Hirundo pyrrhonota). Ecol. 67:1206-1218.

Emlen, J. T., Jr. 1952. Social behavior in nesting cliff swallows. Condor 54:177-199.

Emlen, J. T., Jr. 1954. Territory, nest building, and pair formation in the cliff swallow. Auk 71:16-35.

Emlen, J. T. 1986. Responses of breeding cliff swallows to nidicolous parasite infestations. Condor 88:110-111.

Erskine, A. J. 1979. Man’s influence on potential nesting sites and populations of swallows in Canada. Can. Field Nat. 93:371-377.

Johnsgard, P. A. 1979. Birds of the Great Plains: breeding species and their distribution. Univ. Nebraska Press, Lincoln. 539 pp.

Mayhew, W. W. 1958. The biology of the cliff swallow in California. Condor 60:7-37. Moller, A. P. 1990. Effects of parasitism by a haematophagous mite on reproduction in the barn swallow. Ecol. 71:2345-2357.

Pochop, P. A., R. J. Johnson, D. A. Aguero, and K. M. Eskridge. 1990. The status of lines in bird damage control—a review. Proc. Vertebr. Pest. Conf. 14:317-324.

Samuel, D. E. 1971. The breeding biology of barn and cliff swallows in West Virginia. Wilson Bull. 83:284-301.

Speich, S. M., H. L. Jones, and E. M. Benedict. 1986. Review of the natural nesting of the barn swallow in North America. Am. Midl. Nat. 115:248-254.

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Figures 1 through 5 by Arlene Chin, Senior Artist, Visual Media, University of California, Davis.


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