The Quiz: What U.S. town celebrates the annual return of the cliff swallows?
Gulf Shores, Alabama
Traverse City, Michigan
San Juan Capistrano, California
Stowe, Vermont
Since the 1930s, the town of San Juan Capistrano, California, has held a festival on March 19 to celebrate the return of cliff swallows to their spring and summer home. But the birds’ appearance at the festival has been less reliable in recent years. A colony of cliff swallows has long nested in the Mission San Juan Capistrano church, but the population never recovered after a renovation in the 1990s.
The correct answer to this quiz is San Juan Capistrano, California.