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How to Identify a Cliff Swallow

How to Identify a Cliff Swallow

Instructions Step 1: Check the size of the bird. The Cliff Swallow is around 5 inches long. The Cliff Swallow's belly is white. Its wings are pointed and long, and its tail is squared at the end. Step 2: Look for mud nests on buildings, bridges, barns...

How to Spot a Cave Swallow

How to Spot a Cave Swallow

Instructions Step 1: Look for Cave Swallows near caves in open country or making nests on the undersides of bridges. During breeding season in the summer months, you can find the Cave Swallow in southern New Mexico, south Texas, Mexico, southern Florida...

How to Identify a Barn Swallow

How to Identify a Barn Swallow

Instructions Things You’ll Need: Binoculars Patience Step 1: Know that barn swallows are a small, fast bird that nests in outbuildings, barns and oftentimes chimneys. Step 2: Notice that the barn swallow is a slender bird with a long, forked tail...

How to Attract Barn Swallows

How to Attract Barn Swallows

Instructions Step 1: Open the door. Barn swallows got their name because they like to seek an inside shelter to make their home. Old barns and abandoned buildings provide good homes. Leaving an open door encourages them to come in and nest. Step 2: Cut...

How to Identify a Tree Swallow

How to Identify a Tree Swallow

Instructions Step 1: Look at photos of the common tree swallow and you'll see a medium-sized bird, about 5 3/4"" tall, with unique iridescent blue-green upperparts and white underparts, chin, breast and belly. Its wings are dark gray and its tail is dark...

How to Identify a Bank Swallow

How to Identify a Bank Swallow

Instructions Things You’ll Need: Binoculars Bird guide book Step 1: Determine the bird's size. Smallest of all swallows, bank swallows are 5 to 6 inches from head to tail, with a long wingspan of 10 to 11 inches. Step 2: Identify the coloring using...

How to Identify a Purple Martin

How to Identify a Purple Martin

Instructions Step 1: Learn about the migration habits of the purple martin. This bird spends the winter in Brazil, and begins its northward migration in February for breeding. The purple martin may not be spotted in the northern United States until late...

Communal Colony Bird Nesting Complexes to Use for Backyard Birding

Communal Colony Bird Nesting Complexes to Use for Backyard Birding

Hello, welcome to Expert Village. My name is Wayne Petersen, director of the Massachusetts Audubon Society Important Bird Areas Program and we’re here this afternoon at the Daniel Webster Wildlife Sanctuary in Marshville, Massachusetts. Next we...

How to Identify the House Wren when Backyard Bird Watching

How to Identify the House Wren when Backyard Bird Watching

Hello, welcome to Expert Village. My name is Wayne Petersen, director of the Massachusetts Audubon Society Important Bird Areas Program and we’re here this afternoon at the Daniel Webster Wildlife Sanctuary in Marshville, Massachusetts. Next we...

How to Attract Purple Martins

How to Attract Purple Martins

Instructions Things You’ll Need: Martin house Telescoping pole Owl guards Wood shavings Step 1: Place the martin house in the most open spot on your property. These swallows catch their prey on the fly and need room to perform their aerial...

How to Give Medicine to a Dog

How to Give Medicine to a Dog

Instructions Things You’ll Need: Cheese Hot dog Food Your Dog Might Like How to Give Medicine to a Dog Step 1: Swallowing pills is easier for some dogs than others. There are dogs that will eat almost anything and some don't even bother to chew...

How to Keep Snakes Away from Poultry

How to Keep Snakes Away from Poultry

Instructions Things You’ll Need: Boiled eggs Attention to detail Step 1: Find the route of the snake as it enters the poultry farm. It is easier than it seems. It is normally through cracks and holds near where the hens lay their eggs. Step 2: Boil...

How to Swallow Bitter Medicine

How to Swallow Bitter Medicine

Instructions Step 1: Wrap the pill in bread slathered with your favorite topping such as peanut butter, jelly or honey. This will overpower the taste of the medicine. Make sure that the medicine doesn't specify to take on an empty stomach. Step 2: Grind...

How to Offer Wild Birds Nesting Materials

How to Offer Wild Birds Nesting Materials

Instructions Step 1: Ensure, first of all, that your nesting box is an inviting place for a bird to build its nest: safe, clean, well-built, and so on. However perfect your nesting materials might be, they will never be used if the bird isn't interested...

Dog & Puppy Toys

Dog & Puppy Toys

On behalf of Expert Village, I'm Carlos Puentes with K-9 Solutions Dog Training in Miami, Florida, and today we're going to talk about dog training myths from my new book, Who's Training Whom? Okay, really nice toy, nice and soft and plush, but you don't...

How to Identify North American Kites

How to Identify North American Kites

Instructions Things You’ll Need: Binoculars Step 1: Note the color of the bird. The Mississippi kite is mostly gray, with a white head and black tail. There is a white patch on the upper part of its wing. It migrates to South America in the winter...

How to Treat a Choking Cat

How to Treat a Choking Cat

Hi! I am Dr. Adrienne Mulligan. I am the owner of Camp Verde Veterinary Clinic. I am here today on behalf of expertvillage.com, and I am here to talk to you about taking care of cats with critical conditions, critical emergencies and health issues. So...

How to ID Owl Poop

How to ID Owl Poop

Instructions Step 1: Look for white droppings. Owl poop consists mostly of a white wash, much like most bird poop. This whiteness is caused by uric acid and is thought to be like urine. Step 2: See the brown additions. The brown droppings are the owl's...

How to Identify the Eastern Bluebird when Bird Watching

How to Identify the Eastern Bluebird when Bird Watching

Hello, welcome to Expert Village. My name is Wayne Petersen, director of the Massachusetts Audubon Society Important Bird Areas Program and we’re here this afternoon at the Daniel Webster Wildlife Sanctuary in Marshville, Massachusetts. Next we...

The Fundamentals of Birding by Sight

The Fundamentals of Birding by Sight

Hello! Welcome to Expert Village. My name is Wayne Peterson and I'm the director of the Important Bird Areas Program for the Massachusetts Audubon Society. Today we're here at the Daniel Webster Wildlife Sanctuary in Marshfield, Massachusetts where we'll...

How to Identify Bird Pellets

How to Identify Bird Pellets

Instructions Step 1: Know that many birds produce pellets. Owl and hawk pellets are the most commonly found because of their larger size, but herons, warblers and swallows also throw up small pellets. Step 2: Check under trees. White splotches and...

How to Treat Colic in a Horse

How to Treat Colic in a Horse

Instructions Things You’ll Need: Telephone to call the vet Halter Lead Rope Mineral Oil Step 1: Learn the signs of colic. These include little to no gut sounds; obvious gut pain shown by kicking, nipping at sides, rolling; lethargy, and stress...

House Cleaning Product Safety

House Cleaning Product Safety

To determine what products are kid and pet friendly, you’re going to want to look at the back of the bottle. Every bottle has to keep out of reach of children, and that’s very important. So you want to make sure that you lock all your...

How to Safely Remove a String Ingested by a Cat

How to Safely Remove a String Ingested by a Cat

Hi! I am Dr. Adrienne Mulligan. I am the owner of Camp Verde Veterinary Clinic. I am here today on behalf of expertvillage.com, and I am here to talk to you about taking care of cats with critical conditions, critical emergencies and health issues...

How to Give a Pet Rat Oral Medication

How to Give a Pet Rat Oral Medication

Instructions Things You’ll Need: The prescribed oral medication A dropper or syringe Possibly a towel, if your rat is uncooperative Step 1: Read the instructions that come with the medication, or that your vet may have written down for you. Make...

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