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Tadarida and Myotis Occupying Cliff Swallow Nests

Tadarida and Myotis Occupying Cliff Swallow Nests

Authors :
O. Marcus Buchanan
Source :
Journal of Mammalogy. 39:434
Publication Year :
1958
Publisher :
Oxford University Press (OUP), 1958.

Abstract

On March 20, 1957, H. P. Kirby and the writer found Mexican free-tailed bats, Tadarida brasiliensis mexicana Saussure, and cave myotis, Myotis velifer incautus (J. A. Allen), occupying abandoned nests of the cliff swallow, Petrochelidon pyrrhonata , under a high bridge over a stream, locally known as Pinto Creek, 18.6 miles southeast of Del Rio, in Kinney County, Texas. The typical mud cliff swallow nests were located in the corners of cavities of “inverted box” shape formed by the concrete and steel under-girding and the bottom of the bridge. Possibly 100 such nests were present at the time of our visit; stains on the concrete at points of attachment attested to the former presence of many more. At …

Details

ISSN :
00222372
Volume :
39
Database :
OpenAIRE
Journal :
Journal of Mammalogy
Accession number :
edsair.doi...........7e30635e679e66914e93f13b404b26dd
Full Text :
https://doi.org/10.2307/1376157