Watch the Masterful Flight of Tree Swallows: Wild Birds Revealed

_{This YouTube video was produced by The Cornell Lab of Ornithology.}

Learn more: https://www.allaboutbirds.org/news/tree-swallows-wild-birds-revealed
Tree Swallows are songbirds built for speed and agility—darting, gliding, and swooping after insects over fields, ponds, and wetlands. But these aerial acrobats have another side: they’re playful, competitive, and clever. In this episode of Wild Birds Revealed, nature photographers Tim and Russell Laman aim to slow down the swallows’ frenetic flight to understand how their wings give them such mastery over the air.
Using super slow motion, still photos, and an innovative nest camera, they capture detailed views of the sleek adults and growing nestlings—including one youngster’s first flight.
Filmed on location by Tim and Russell Laman in Massachusetts, for the Cornell Lab of Ornithology’s Wild Birds Revealed – a series exploring the hidden lives of familiar birds. Learn more: https://www.allaboutbirds.org/news/tree-swallows-wild-birds-revealed

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Camera equipment used: OM-1 Mark II, M.Zuiko 150-400mm f4.5 TC1.25X IS PRO

Special Thanks:
Massachusetts Department of Conservation & Recreation (Walden Pond State Reservation)
Jacqui Kluft
Vanessa Vallée
Robert Buchwaldt