Ornithologist Arthur Bent’s words in the early 1900s still hold true today. “Everybody who notices birds at all knows, admires and loves the graceful, friendly barn swallow,” he explained. “No bird in ...

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

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 ...

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, ...

May is one of my favorite months of the year. Every walk outside is an adventure with something new to discover. One returning visitor excites me more than any other I see: barn swallows. They are ...

Whether you love watching barn swallows up close or dread the mess they leave behind, a Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service expert encourages you to take preventative action before the birds begin ...

Here is a typical conversation that I have with fellow birders when I’m trying to bird for swallows. “There’s a swallow. There it goes. Here it comes. I wish it would perch someplace.” Swallows fly a ...

Mosquitoes are among the most irritating pests. In addition to their annoying bites, which can leave you very itchy, some are also vectors for deadly viruses. Fortunately, many birds eat mosquitoes, ...

The barn swallow is a pretty little bird. It also can be an aggressive little pest. Therefore, human beings, and this individual human, tend to have a love-hate relationship with the swallow. In ...

If you are a male barn swallow in the United States or the Mediterranean with dark red breast feathers, you’re apt to wow potential mates. But if you have long outer tail feathers in the United States ...

The barn swallow population has exploded at our place west of Gilby, N.D. We’ve had barn swallows each of the 16 years we’ve lived there, and sometimes cliff swallows, too, but never this many, ...

It was — for far more than one reason — for the birds. Barn swallows — with their young tucked in a pair of nests built in the low-ceiling between two rows of stanchioned cows — were my ...