Here is one from the Battleship in Wilmington, NC in April, 2017.
Northern Rough-winged Swallows are fairly common in NC but melanistic (dark) ones are not and melanistic swallows making a home in a Chevy pickup tailpipe are even harder to come by. However, that is what I found at Carolina Beach State Park in May 2017. The female watched from the boat trailer as the melanistic male made many trips with nesting material into the tailpipe. I didn't stick around to see what happened when the boater came back after a day on the water and fired up his engine.
Female.... watching her mate live out Darwinian selection.
Northern Rough-winged Swallows are fairly common in NC but melanistic (dark) ones are not and melanistic swallows making a home in a Chevy pickup tailpipe are even harder to come by. However, that is what I found at Carolina Beach State Park in May 2017. The female watched from the boat trailer as the melanistic male made many trips with nesting material into the tailpipe. I didn't stick around to see what happened when the boater came back after a day on the water and fired up his engine.
Female.... watching her mate live out Darwinian selection.
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