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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

All our local resident birds are full-throatedly busy attracting mates and checking out possible nest sites. The ...

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 ...

Cliff swallows are said by ornithologists to show the highest degree of colonization of any of the 89 swallow species in the world. Colonies can number from 200 to more than 2,000 nests. They could 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, ...