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Tadarida and Myotis Occupying Cliff Swallow Nests
Tadarida and Myotis Occupying Cliff Swallow Nests
- Source :
- Journal of Mammalogy. 39:434
- Publication Year :
- 1958
- Publisher :
- Oxford University Press (OUP), 1958.
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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 …
- Subjects :
- geography
geography.geographical_feature_category
Ecology
biology
Tadarida
biology.organism_classification
Bridge (interpersonal)
Myotis velifer
Cave
Petrochelidon
Genetics
Cliff
Animal Science and Zoology
Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics
Nature and Landscape Conservation
Tadarida brasiliensis mexicana
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 00222372
- Volume :
- 39
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Journal of Mammalogy
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi...........7e30635e679e66914e93f13b404b26dd
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.2307/1376157