My name is Jon E. Cruz (Jonathan Enrique Cruz). When I visited one of the greatest pieces of Spanish history, Mission San Juan Capistrano, I was looking around, and suddenly, I saw swallows at the mission in their nest. It made me realize that the swallows chose the mission for a reason. I took notes on the smallest of the details concerning the birds in order to study. I then wrote the children’s book, The Tales of the Swallows. The swallows are the most abundant and widely distributed bird species in the world.