Swallow

The swallow is a genus of birds of the swallow family. Swallows' food consists exclusively of insects, taken on the fly. All these insects, carried away by currents of warm air in clear sunny weather, rise quite high up. At this time, the swallows, busy hunting, fly high in the sky. When, especially before a thunderstorm, the air is saturated with water vapor and the wet insects are “nailed to the ground, the swallows move closer to the water bodies. Here, rushing at the very surface of the water, they catch insects that continue to fly in rainy weather. It is no coincidence that the behavior of swallows has long been a weather indicator. For residents of cold and temperate latitudes, swallows are the favorite messengers of the warm season. Many peoples of the world protect the nests of these birds, and there is a belief that a swallow nesting under the roof of a house brings people happiness.