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 ...

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 ...

Tiny barn swallows weigh about the same as around eight pennies or 17 to 20 grams. While building their nests, these small birds make about 1,000 trips to the ground to add layer after layer. The ...

All birds in our area spend some time in the air. We have no flightless birds. But some are better aerialists than others, and some make greater use of the sky. The question arises because many ...

Save Our Swallows group hosts rally outside of Rye barn to speak out against banning Barn Swallows from nesting there ...

Advocates for opening a town-owned barn for the birds despite concerns over accumulating waste have gathered enough ...

Cliff swallows, newly arrived from Argentina and Brazil, build nests each spring under bridges around California. There are several good spots to watch.

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 ...

I have always associated the autumn nighthawk flight with Labor Day weekend, though peak numbers probably happen earlier. Hundreds of birds have already been tallied in Concord and the other southern ...

Slowly, spring seeps in all around us. For thousands of years, January was not the beginning of the calendar year. For the ancient Egyptians, Greeks and Jews, the new year coincided with the vernal ...