Tree Swallow

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Steel blue back and head feathers, coupled with a white belly, differentiate the Tree Swallow from other North American swallows.

They tend to migrate to the northern most fields and wetlands of Canada and the United States for breeding season, and they take easily to nesting boxes.

Small populations over winter in the southern most areas of the United States, south through Central America.

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