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 ...

Barn swallows have been nesting in an old barn in Rye, N.H., for decades. This year, the returning birds will find themselves locked out, and that has ruffled a lot of feathers around town.

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 ...

A town-owned, antique barn will keep its windows shut this spring, over concerns about accumulated bird droppings. The birds ...

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 ...

An estimated 40 bank swallows were seen foraging on the Connecticut River in Hinsdale on June 29 and included in the New Hampshire Audubon rare bird alert for this week.Bank swallows live in colonies ...

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 ...

Saturday, March 21, is the Swallows Day Parade in San Juan Capistrano. The cliff swallows fly from Argentina, one of the longest migrations of any species. Cliff swallows are one of more than 350 bird ...

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 ...