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PRONUNCIATION OF BARN SWALLOW

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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF BARN SWALLOW

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Barn swallow is a noun.
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WHAT DOES BARN SWALLOW MEAN IN ENGLISH?

barn swallow

Barn swallow

The barn swallow is the most widespread species of swallow in the world. It is a distinctive passerine bird with blue upperparts, a long, deeply forked tail and curved, pointed wings. It is found in Europe, Asia, Africa and the Americas. In Anglophone Europe it is just called the swallow; in Northern Europe it is the only common species called a "swallow" rather than a "martin". There are six subspecies of barn swallow, which breed across the Northern Hemisphere. Four are strongly migratory, and their wintering grounds cover much of the Southern Hemisphere as far south as central Argentina, the Cape Province of South Africa, and northern Australia. Its huge range means that the barn swallow is not endangered, although there may be local population declines due to specific threats. The barn swallow is a bird of open country which normally uses man-made structures to breed and consequently has spread with human expansion. It builds a cup nest from mud pellets in barns or similar structures and feeds on insects caught in flight.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE BARN SWALLOW

barn
barn conversion
barn dance
barn dancing
barn door
barn egg
barn owl
Barnabas
barnacle
barnacle goose
barnacled
Barnard
Barnard´s star
Barnardo
Barnardo´s
Barnaul
Barnave
barnbrack
Barnes
barnet

WORDS THAT END LIKE BARN SWALLOW

allow
ballow
callow
cliff swallow
disallow
fallow
fellow
gallow
hallow
mallow
marsh mallow
marshmallow
musk mallow
rose mallow
sallow
sea swallow
shallow
swallow
tallow
wallow
woodswallow

Synonyms and antonyms of barn swallow in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «barn swallow» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF BARN SWALLOW

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The translations of barn swallow from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «barn swallow» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

燕子
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

golondrina
570 millions of speakers

English

barn swallow
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

बार्न स्वैलो
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

الحظيرة ابتلاع
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

Деревенская ласточка
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

andorinha
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

শস্যাগার গেলা
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

hirondelle
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Bangsal tenggelam
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Rauchschwalbe
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

ツバメ
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

헛간 제비
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Lenggah swallow
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

én
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

கொட்டகை விழுங்குகிறது
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

झुंड गुळगुळीत
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

kır kırlangıcı
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

rondine
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

Barn Swallow
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

сільська ластівка
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

hambar înghiți
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

αχυρώνα χελιδόνι
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

skuur sluk
14 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Swedish

Ladusvala
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

låven svelge
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of barn swallow

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «BARN SWALLOW»

The term «barn swallow» is quite widely used and occupies the 51.238 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «BARN SWALLOW»

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The Barn Swallow
This book examines all aspects of the life of this endearing bird, with chapters on its flying skills and feeding habits, mate choice, breeding strategies, nest sites, eggs and incubation, nestling rearing, productivity and survival, ...
Angela Turner, 2010
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Telling the barn swallow: poets on the poetry of Maxine Kumin
This collection fills that gap through analyses by her fellow poets of topics like Kumin's diction and prosody, her literary forebears, and characteristic thematic patterns.
Emily Grosholz, 1997
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Sexual Selection and the Barn Swallow
An important empirical test of the theoretical predictions of sexual selection theory, this book presents a long-term field study of the monagamous barn swallow.
Anders Pape Møller, 1994
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Henry the Barn Swallow
Mary Wright. The humans had all planted their winter gardens and bulbs for next spring. All the harvesting in the fields was done and now they were busy getting their houses ready for winter. They put garden tools away in the shed or barn ...
Mary Wright, 2013
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Coloniality in the Cliff Swallow: The Effect of Group Size ...
7.5 NEST SPACING COMPARISONS WITH BARN SWALLOWS Another way to address the potential importance of nesting site limitation in cliff swallows is through a comparison with the congeneric and ecologically similar barn swallow.
Charles R. Brown, Mary Bomberger Brown, 1996
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Basic Texas Birds: A Field Guide
BARN SWALLOW Hirundo rustica 250 BACKGROUND The Barn Swallow is the most abundant and widespread swallow in the world. In the New World, this species breeds throughout the vast majority of North America and winters mostly in ...
Mark W. Lockwood, 2010
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Fifty Common Birds of Oklahoma and the Southern Great Plains
BARN SWALLOW (Hirundo rustica) Northwest of Norman, near the airfield, is a shallow impoundment that I have always called the Airfield Pond. When there are heavy rains this pond overflows, covering an acre or so of old pavement with ...
George Miksch Sutton, 1981
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Swallow Barn, Or A Sojourn in the Old Dominion
CHAPTER. I. SWALLOW BARN. Swallow Barn is an aristocratical old edifice which sits, like a brooding hen, on the southern bank of the James River. It looks down upon a shady pocket or nook, formed by an indentation of the shore, from a  ...
John Pendleton Kennedy, 1856
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Hirundinidae: Barn Swallow, Delichon, Common House Martin, ...
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online.
Source: Wikipedia, Books Llc, 2010
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Swallow barn, or, A soujourn in the Old Dominion
... of it " — as Nym says. It may be some time before we meet ; till then, I wear you in my heart. Mark Littleton. Swallow Barn, June 20, 1829. CHAPTER l. SWALLOW BARN. Swallow Barn is an aristocratical old 26 INTRODUCTORY EPISTLE.
John Pendleton Kennedy, 1853

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «BARN SWALLOW»

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For the Birds: North Dakota dreaming, but not on a winter's day …
A barn swallow flew by the car. I turned to the video camera part of my cellphone. I wanted a video of the swallow flying accompanied by the ... «Bluff Country Reader, Jul 15»
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WINGING IT: One good tern deserves another
... American Robin, Black-capped Chickadee, Northern Cardinal, Bobolink, Northern Mockingbird, Barn Swallow, Tree Swallow, Song Sparrow, ... «Wicked Local Essex, Jul 15»
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Blog: DNCB Outing No. 2015-26 to Reifel Bird Sanctuary
Lots of successful Barn Swallow nests in the Sanctuary; one nest in a Blind enthralled Anne and Christie as it had four or five babies peeking ... «Delta-Optimist, Jul 15»
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What is this... 19 eggs and counting?
The kids had gone out for a while, tried a few semesters at barn swallow college and then returned home to mom's regurgitated mac and ... «Glens Falls Post-Star, Jul 15»
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Full Nests for Island Birds
I observed lots of barn swallow fledglings perched on the fencing at Tea Lane farm on June 28. Zac Sweeney has been watching a family of ... «The Vineyard Gazette - Martha's Vineyard News, Jul 15»
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WEEKEND: Summer Jamboree mixes food, music in Chimacum today
The farm, at 142 Barn Swallow Road off Center and Country Meadow roads, will start things off at 11:30 a.m. with The Harmonica Pocket, ... «Peninsula Daily, Jun 15»
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WEEKEND: Sunday Jamboree mixes food, music in Chimacum
The farm, at 142 Barn Swallow Road off Center and Country Meadow roads, will start things off at 11:30 a.m. with The Harmonica Pocket, ... «Peninsula Daily, Jun 15»
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News Briefs
... Warbling Vireo, Blue Jay, Horned Lark, Cliff Swallow, Barn Swallow, House Wren, American Robin, Brown Thrasher, European Starling, ... «Gering Citizen, Jun 15»
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Barn swallow, bobolinks conservation project sees success
An Island Nature Trust project to protect barn swallows and bobolinks on P.E.I. is seeing success, and now the trust is looking to aim higher. «CBC.ca, Jun 15»
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Officer's death leads cops and kids to bond over fishing
They watched a mama barn swallow fetch food and take it back to her babies. “They just build those out of nothing,” McBride said. "One blade ... «Fremont Tribune, Jun 15»

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