Huge swallow enhancement success!

June 12, 2024 by Rachel Darvill

Photo: Pat Morrow

Our Upper Columbia Swallow Habitat Enhancement Project Bank Swallow Enhancement Project in Invermere is currently very active with Bank Swallow activity! 240 new nesting holes were counted on June 7 at this newly created breeding habitat area. This was formally a pile of substrate slated to be removed, but in the fall of 2023 we made it suitable for breeding Bank Swallows; done in collaboration with the District of Invermere. Thanks to the Columbia Basin Trust and Fish and Wildlife Compensation Program for supporting this project!

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