Riverbank declares itself Manitoba’s swallow capital
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This article was published 13/07/2021 (1725 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.
The Riverbank Discovery Centre made an audacious announcement on Monday, one that might be hard to swallow.
In partnership with the Assiniboine Food Forest, the riverbank declared itself the swallow capital of Manitoba.
According to a release sent out by the organizations, the declaration wasn’t made by someone going cuckoo.
A recent count of the birds hanging around the habitats installed on the Discovery Centre’s ground located approximately 1,000 young swallows that will be fledging this summer.
“The reasoning was because the habitat is absolutely ideal for swallows at the Riverbank,” Assiniboine Food Forest chairperson Dave Barnes stated in the release. “I believe there are more nesting pairs of swallows there than on any other similar-sized land area in Manitoba.”
There are four species of swallows at the riverbank: cliff swallows, purple martins, tree swallows and barn swallows.
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