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Young remain in the nest and are constantly fed by the parents for up to 28 days. 1 have seen adults fly in and poke food into a yellow-lined,"<■ gaping mouth without missing a wingbeat.
Like their dose relatives, Purple - Martins and Tree Swallows, Baro Swallows are colonial nesters. • Twenty-seven mud nests in one barn . have been reported. That would make 54 adults; with all that insect ■ consumption, there would be few mosquitoes and flies to torment the owner of the barn and his livestock. For each pair of swallows there are . t hree or four hungry young to be com. sfantly fed; that adds up to a minus in the (lying insect population.
John Trott can be reached at the Rappahannock News, P.O. Box 59>, Z Washington, Va., 22747. Last weeks'; headline was incorrectly written as , i Cats and wildlife mutually compar' tiable outside, when it should have, said incompatible. The Rappahannock News regrets the error. - - .
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