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SWALLOWS DEPART FROM SAN JUAN CAPISTRANO DAY - October 23
National Day Calendar ^ | October 23, 2023 | Staff

Posted on 10/23/2023 11:47:41 AM PDT by Red Badger

SWALLOWS DEPART FROM SAN JUAN CAPISTRANO DAY

On October 23rd, the Swallows Depart from San Juan Capistrano Day marks the migration of thousands of swallows.

#SwallowsDepartFromSanJuanCapistranoDay

The famous cliff swallows of San Juan Capistrano leave town every year in a swirling mass near the Day of San Juan (October 23). They head for their winter vacation spot 6,000 miles south in Goya, Corrientes, Argentina. Each year, they return on or about March 19th - St. Joseph Day. Their migration has been marked for generations.

Cliff swallows are cousins of barn swallows and purple martins.

Swallows have long, narrow wings, forked tails, and weak, tiny feet. Incredibly graceful in flight, they feed on the wing, catching insects in their wide mouths; they can effortlessly make abrupt changes in direction or speed as they feed.

The cliff swallow has a rusty rump, and when seen from below, it appears to have a squared-off tail and a dark patch on the throat.

HOW TO OBSERVE SWALLOWS DEPART FROM SAN JUAN CAPISTRANO DAY

Learn more about cliff swallows and their family members. Sketch or photograph them. Watch videos of them in flight. Study their habitat and follow their migration path. Listen to a recording of their song. Use #SwallowsDepartFromSanJuanCapistranoDay to post on social media.

SWALLOWS DEPART FROM SAN JUAN CAPISTRANO DAY HISTORY

National Day Calendar® continues researching the origins of this migration day.


TOPICS: History; Outdoors; Pets/Animals; Travel
KEYWORDS: swallows
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How do they know what day it is?

Do they have tiny little calendars?...................

1 posted on 10/23/2023 11:47:41 AM PDT by Red Badger
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To: Red Badger

OK, time to clean up the mess...


2 posted on 10/23/2023 11:50:16 AM PDT by Jim W N (MAGA by restoring the Gospel of the Grace of Christ (Jude 3) and our Free Constitutional Republic!)
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To: Red Badger

I’ve heard about this annual migration for years.
Good to know they continue to thrive in numbers worth migrating.

I also used to hear about Monarch Butterflies migrating in large numbers around this time of year. I haven’t heard anything about that movement for a while.
Perhaps that species is dwindling, at least in California.


3 posted on 10/23/2023 11:55:25 AM PDT by lee martell
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We still see them passing thru on the way to Mexico...............


4 posted on 10/23/2023 11:56:24 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: Red Badger

Didn’t even know Harris was in San Juan.


5 posted on 10/23/2023 11:57:33 AM PDT by BigFreakinToad (Remember the Biden Kitchen Fire of 2004)
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To: Red Badger

African or European?


6 posted on 10/23/2023 11:57:54 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Red Badger

When the area runs out of coconuts they leave.


7 posted on 10/23/2023 11:58:26 AM PDT by discostu (like a dog being shown a card trick)
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8 posted on 10/23/2023 11:58:44 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: dfwgator

Indo-European.................


9 posted on 10/23/2023 11:59:31 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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10 posted on 10/23/2023 12:00:11 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: lee martell
Perhaps that species is dwindling, at least in California.

Contrary to the reports from knee jerking alarmists, they are thriving well.....

11 posted on 10/23/2023 12:05:20 PM PDT by Hot Tabasco
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How do they know what day it is?

For three years in a row, migrating orioles from South America to here in Michigan arrived at my oriole feeder on May 2......

I take that back, last year they arrived on May 3 but that may have been due to the enormous amount of road construction here in S.E. Michigan....

12 posted on 10/23/2023 12:08:04 PM PDT by Hot Tabasco
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but that may have been due to the enormous amount of road construction here in S.E. Michigan.........

They drove?...................


13 posted on 10/23/2023 12:12:56 PM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: Red Badger

So, what was Eric swallowswell doing in SJC any way?


14 posted on 10/23/2023 12:13:05 PM PDT by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this💩? 🚫💉! 🇮🇱👍!)
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To: rktman

Eating Chinese.......................


15 posted on 10/23/2023 12:16:06 PM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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Brazil is one hell of a long way from Michigan, you don’t really think they flew all the way do you?


16 posted on 10/23/2023 12:19:23 PM PDT by Hot Tabasco
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Do they have tiny little calendars?...................

They are cliff swallows so they took notes.

Avogadro tipped them off with his tiny 23.

17 posted on 10/23/2023 12:20:15 PM PDT by Ezekiel (🆘️ "Come fly with US". Ingenuity -- because the Son of David begins with Mars ♂️, aka every man)
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To: Hot Tabasco

It was the long lines at the airport check-in..............


18 posted on 10/23/2023 12:20:38 PM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: BigFreakinToad

Split tail, rosy rump....it’s her, alright. .


19 posted on 10/23/2023 12:21:38 PM PDT by gundog (It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. )
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To: Red Badger

Great picture!

n.b. - that’s a Barn Swallow, not a Cliff Swallow.


20 posted on 10/23/2023 12:22:03 PM PDT by Fury
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