Hundreds of birds take a break during a 1000-mile flight by perching on telephone wires and enjoying the morning sunshine, in photos just released by a French nature photographer. The photos, taken ...

The barn swallow is bird of the week. It's hard to name any other bird in the last week of August. Barn swallows are abundant in country places. They've finished nesting. The last young-of-the-year at ...

An AgriLife Extension expert discusses how to limit barn swallow nests on structures while adhering to federal law.

HADLEY — Every spring, they faithfully return. Scores of the small birds with the long, forked tail and dark rump flutter through openings in a dimly lit, dilapidated stable, where they use mud and ...

In the world of birds, where fancy can be as fleeting as flight, the color of the bird apparently has a profound effect on more than just its image. A new study of barn swallows reveals it also ...

An old saying goes, “One swallow doesn’t make a summer.” Fortunately, we don’t have to settle for just one species. During the summer, members of the swallow bird family are common all over North ...

One warm and muggy morning on my walk, I notice swallows gathering on overhead power lines. The pair closest to me are northern rough-wings, and they are well into the throes of courtship: she, ...

TOWNSEND, Ont. – The long grass sways as a soft summer wind sweeps under two strange structures, blowing with it the faint smell of manure, in an otherwise empty Ontario field. Under one, which looks ...

The general trend in Marin bird migration is for most of winter’s abundant shorebirds and waterfowl to head north each spring, soon replaced by a variety of mostly insect-eating songbirds from Mexico ...

The evolution of barn swallows, a bird ubiquitous to bridges and sheds around the world, might be even more closely tied to humans than previously thought, according to new study. The evolution of ...

The Goss Farm barn in Rye is temporarily closed due to a health hazard from accumulated barn swallow droppings. The closure will last through the spring and summer while the Conservation Commission ...