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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

The swallow show on Plum Island is winding down, though we have still seen thousands in the last few days. It likely peaked around the end of August when Matt Sabourin of Newton took a more scientific ...

One swallow may not a summer make but, then again, seldom does one see a lone swallow. Several species of swallows that make the L.V. region their summer homes have already returned with even bigger ...

Bedbugs are no fun, even when you’re a bird. The species that bothers humans — Cimex lectularius — only feasts on us. But other animals have to deal with their own versions of the nasty parasite.

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

Cliff swallows%27 road deaths dropped during 30-year study The birds that are dying on the roads have longer wings Swallows%27 average wing length shortened by millimeters Does a new study offer a ...