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Purple Martin, Progne subis.
February 26 to September 19. Common summer resident. Thousands of martins maintained a fall roost in the Larue area of Beaver Lake in late July 1987.

Northern Rough-winged Swallow, Stelgidopteryx serripennis.
March 5 to October 23. Common migrant and summer resident. In the Arkansas Ozarks these cavity nesters have utilized tunnels in hard dirt banks as well as natural cavities in rock bluffs, both above streams. In summer 1985, for example, the birds successfully reared young in square holes in the concrete supports under a bridge in Madison County near the Thompson community.

Tree Swallow, Tachycineta bicolor.
March 15 to May 8+ and September 1 to November 14. Fairly common migrant, rare summer resident. The only definite nesting records are from Bob Kidd Lake near Prairie Grove where adults and a nest with eggs were found in a dead tree out in the lake on May 25, 1984. Adults and or immature birds were also found there in 1986- 1988 and Beaver Lake in 1988. Callahan (1953) reported them during summer at Lake Wedington, but there have been no reports from Lake Wedington in summer since. The species occurs as a fairly common and sometimes common transient, either in small flocks or mixed among flocks of other species of swallows. For example, approximately 1000 swallows were seen at Table Rock Lake on April 3, 1987; among them were Tree, Northern Rough-winged and Barn swallows, plus Purple Martins.