The LA Times published a story on Mission San Juan Capistrano's attempt to bring back their Cliff Swallows:

In a last-ditch effort to lure back the tiny cliff swallow, Mission San Juan Capistrano is trying to win the affections of the migratory visitor by playing the bird’s mating call throughout the mission grounds.

The unromantic croak of the swallow, piped from an iPod tucked behind a statue of mission founder Junipero Serra, rings inside the mission’s adobe walls.

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