What is the difference in the swallow from the haircut. What are the distinctive features between swallow and haircut. From this article, you will learn how to distinguish a swallow from the haircut.

Striges and swallows are very similar. Are they relatives or not? We find out about it in the article.

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Swallows - what are they?

Swallow - a small bird, a length of up to 19 cm with a tail, weighing up to 22 G. Peniye-black color, on the breast and forehead white spots (in chicks red), the tail is shaped, in the female it is shorter, the wings are pointed, the beak is short and sharp .

Lasts live and breeds around the world, except for the north. From moderate latitudes of flocks fly to winter in the tropics.
Feed insects - catch them on the fly.
On moderate latitude of swallows fly in April, and immediately build nests of dry plants and dirt.
In the middle of the bird's nest ripped with dry edigs and down. To build a nest, the birds will have to bring meter in the beak or a piece of dirt about 1 thousand times.
When the nest is ready, the female postpones 3-5 eggs, after 12-17 days, chicks appear. They are fed insects and dad, and mom.
Chicks begin to fly on the 25th day after hacking.
Swallow flour into warm edges the very first.

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Striges - what do you look like?

Striges - the most common birds on Earth, live everywhere, except the polar circle. They can be seen in the warm season, both in rural areas and in a large city, flying and screaming, or rather squeezing over the houses.

Strip - bird, up to 24 cm long with tail, weighing up to 140 g, with a large head, small, but sharp key, long sleeves, forked tail.
The bird is painted in grayish-black tones, but there are haircuts, which have white specks on the neck, tummy, forehead and tail.
Feeding with flies, mosquitoes, midges, which are caught on the fly.
If there is no rainy weather, fly and feed the birds can not, they fall into the hibernation or, or rather into a stupor: the temperature of their bodies drops, it can fall to 20ᵒc, it can last up to 1 week until good weather comes.
The same ability to experience hard days, endowed with chicks, they can hold out to 9 days.

The haircuts will fall by the colonies in the wrappers of trees, caves, nonorah. The female and the male together cloud the nest about 1 week from dry grass, feathers, small branches. Then the female sits down to cross the demolished eggs, their 1-4 pieces. The male at that time flies and brings her food. After 16-22 days, chicks appear, a little more than 1 month they grow, then leave the parent nest, and until then both parents feed them with lumps created by the insect bird itself. Created once a couple remains faithful to each other for life, and birds live for 10-20 years.

But not every year is good for the haircuts. If the rainy weather stretches for a long time, birds understand that they will not feed the hatched chicks, and so far they are not yet, they throw eggs in advance.

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What is the difference between swallows from the haircuts?

Striges and swallows are similar among themselves in color, size and power facilities. And how to distinguish them?

Haircuts and swallows are not relatives: The first belongs to the sparrow detachment, haircuts - to the haircut.
Bird's plumage. If we consider that there are white specks from both birds, but the haircuts are less, then their difference is that the top of the swallows is painted in a bluish-black color, and the haircuts are in greenish-black.
Bird size. The haircuts are more swallows, there are even 2 times.
Swallows and stripes - birds migratory, but swallows fly from warm places in early April, and strips - at the end of May.
Bird's behavior in flight. Striges faster than any bird on Earth, fly, developing speed up to 170 km per hour, fly straight and lightning; Swallows fly, maneuvering, and develop the speed of only up to 60 km per hour.
Difference by sounds. Striges, flying, shout like "Cry-Cree", and swallows, especially in the nest, make melodic sounds on a par with singing and trell.
Habitat. Swallows in a big city can not be seen, they prefer to settle in the countryside, and the haircuts were mastered in cities.
Methods of movement. The haircuts have a peculiar structure of the fingers on the legs: all 4 fingers are directed forward, so they can not walk on the ground, stand on the branch, and sleep at night, clinging behind the branch of the legs, head down. The swallows are directed to different directions: 3 forward, 1 - back, and they, like other birds, easily go and sit on branches.
The haircuts eat, feed chicks, drink water, sometimes even sleep, on the fly.
On the head of the swallow a kind of light brown hat.