Different barn swallows (IMAGE)

University of Colorado at Boulder

Different barn swallows

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Hirundo rustica rustica (left) and Hirundo rustica tytleri (right) have different sexually selected traits, so they prefer to mate within their own group. 

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Matt Wilkins

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