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garages. To assume that this graceful bird prefers the company of man is not quite true. It is not so much companionship with man as it is the abundant supply of flying insects man and his livestock attract.
The Bam Swallow not only snaps up house flies,‘it also eats horseflies and mosquitoes. Any insect that flies is acceptable as food by the Barn Swallow. Robber flies, said to be destructive to honeybees, are a favored food. I searched the ornithological literature and found no reference to Bam Swallows eating honeybees. That is comforting. Honeybees carry pollen from male flowers to the stigma of the female flower, this guaranteeing food for us. Honeybees need all the help they can get. An important fact.
Because of their diet of flying insects, Bam Swallows are diurnal migrants. They fly south during the day; not at night, as most other land birds do. They make a long trip — feeding as they go — down through Mexico and Central America to their wintering territory in the southern half of South
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