For hundreds of years, barn swallows have signaled the coming of spring. In many cultures, it is considered good luck to have barn swallows build nests on a person’s property. Artifacts depicting barn ...

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, ...

Throughout the month of April, five species of swallows – tree, northern rough-winged, bank, cliff and barn – pass through South Texas en route to their nesting grounds to the north. At the end of ...

Peter Townshend knows it's spring when the barn swallows show up on his farm in Rollo Bay, P.E.I. "When they come back, it's like the family has come back to open the cottage for the summer," said ...

Frankly, I found a number in the millions surprising. It was my math, so a second effort definitely was needed. The answer was the same: Birds using 61 nests at the Wayzata Country Club (WCC) consumed ...

Pam and Joe Monahan don’t need TV. They have a nesting pair of tree swallows in a bluebird box in their West Neck backyard. The beautiful birds zoom back and forth, dawn to dusk, feeding their five ...