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Photos
The star of the show: the cliff swallow
Cliff swallows historically built their mud nests on the sides of cliffs
Netting cliff swallows for banding in a culvert underneath a railroad
Blood-feeding swallow bugs, the cliff swallow's equivalent of bed bugs
Color-painting a bird so we can recognize it at a distance
Accessing cliff swallow nests on a river bridge
Cliff swallows on an ancestral cliff colony site
Fumigating nests to remove swallow bugs to study the bugs' effects
Cliff swallow babies of the same age, with bug parasites (left) and without
Taking a blood sample
Wide open spaces of the western Nebraska study area
Cliff swallows are one of the most social birds in North America
Parent feeding its offspring after leaving the nest
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