Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The most wide-spread members of the swallow family, barn swallows wing their way throughout the world, breeding generally in the ...

THE SWALLOWS ARE supposed to return in March and April. Birds don’t always do what we expect them to do. Reports of swallow sightings began coming in this winter, and that is more than a little ...

The Idaho Bird Conservation Partnership is launching a new program — Swallows and Bridges — to help educate Treasure Valley citizens about the conservation of aerial insectivores. You can help in a ...

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (KTHV) -- The bird of the week for June 12 is the barn swallow. Glistening cobalt blue above and tawny below, Barn Swallows dart gracefully over fields, barnyards, and open water in ...

Barn swallows zip through the air in rapid twists and turns at speeds reaching 50 mph. When they make a pit stop, its to plaster mud pellets into their cup-shaped nests. We may see the nests under ...

AUSTIN (KXAN) — Love them or hate them, it’s the season for a special kind of flying squatter to return to Central Texas. Barn swallows are migrating back into our area, and once they set up on your ...

Last Sunday Fort Wadsworth had an open house as part of National Parks Week and in celebration of the centennial of the National Parks Service. It was a true spring afternoon, a lovely day to be ...

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 ...

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, ...

In Sturt National Park, near Tibooburra in central Australia where temperatures can range from freezing to nearly 50°C, there lives a small bird with a white back, forked tail and – as we’ve just ...

Cliff swallows indeed prefer cliffs, building colonies of their gourd-shaped nests along the sheer vertical surfaces, but they also love concrete bridges over creeks and rivers. The underside of ...