Hard to believe that June is already on our doorstep in this busy and very active spring season! May has once again been one of the most wonderful months of the year – this year being especially ...

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 ...

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 ...

My earliest memory of a bird was the one colorfully painted on a shot glass in a relative’s China cabinet with the caption “JUST A SWALLOW.” I wouldn’t have gotten the joke even if I could read — I ...

In a 1,600-square-foot room next to a former equestrian arena on Moody Bridge Road in Hadley, a game call device wired to a timer and a 12-volt battery plays recordings of barn swallow vocalizations ...

Caution is always the better part of valor when it comes to approaching a tree swallow nest box. If you don’t pay attention, you run the risk of being dive-bombed and potentially plunked on the head ...

Swallow-tailed kites are one of Florida's gemstone birds, mostly because of their annual migration and aerial acrobatics. The beautiful, comparatively small raptors recently arrived in Southwest ...

Tree swallows in central P.E.I. have some new homes, thanks to five watershed groups in the area. The groups have put up dozens of nesting boxes for the insect-eating birds as part of a standardized ...

A wildlife trust is urging the charity which runs Chatsworth House to take down anti-swallow and nesting nets put up over sculptures at the stately home in Derbyshire. Did you know with a Digital ...