Mate choices of barn swallows tied to diverging appearances

Posted by on August 15, 2016 1:45 pm
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If you are a male barn swallow in the United States or the Mediterranean with dark red breast feathers, you’re apt to wow potential mates. But if you have long outer tail feathers in the United States, or short ones in the Mediterranean, the females may not be so impressed.

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