Cliff Swallow/wood crafts/handicraft/sculptures/birds

ABC of Real Bird
Length: 5.5 inches
Wingspan: 12 inches
Weight: 0.8 ounce

Hundreds of gourd-shaped "mud jugs" plastered to the side of a barn or under a bridge or highway overpass are a typical nesting territory for these highly adaptable birds.

Farmers heartily welcome this resident because it eats numerous flying insects that are harmful to crops.

Nesting colonies may number from eight hundred to more than one thousand birds. Note the dark rusty brown throat, and in flight the brown underwing linings, cinnamon buff rump, square tail, dusky cinnamon undertail coverts with dark centers, and whitish buff edged feathers of back and tertials.

Juveniles have dusky brown upperparts and paler underparts. This swallow has successfully expanded its range in the Southeast and the West.

The southwestern race displays a cinnamon forehead similar to the Cave Swallow.

The bird is carved out of basswood, glass eyes  brass feet and fully detailed by burning pen. It is a fantastic wooden craft which can be high-class gift and home furnishing!

The bird is carved out of basswood, glass eyes and bronze feet. It is absolutely fantastic and vivid handicraft of wood carving!