You can't miss the flying acrobats - aka barn swallows - as you drive under overpasses. They began arriving in late March from winter homes in Central and South America. The majority probably made a ...

AUSTIN (KXAN) — Love them or hate them, it’s the season for a special kind of flying squatter to return to Central Texas. Barn swallows are migrating back into our area, and once they set up on your ...

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 ...

Four young barn swallows have found a new home in a P.E.I. barn, after being born in a nest on top of a fishing boat in Tignish Harbour. The nestlings were discovered by researchers with the Island ...

A photographer has captured stunning images of a barn swallow flying through an open stable door on the way to feed its young. Richard Bowler set up a camera rig to document the busy bird at his rural ...

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 ...

A series of twittering notes serve as the song of the barn swallow. In southern Minnesota, we enjoy their musical chattering beginning about mid-April when they return from South America. We, too, can ...

Barn swallows, seen here, can be distinguished from cliff swallows by their forked tails. Michele Roest Special to The Cambrian The swallows are back in town! One of the many joyful sights this time ...

Barn swallows are a cosmopolitan species, living in such far-flung places as Europe, the Middle East, Indochina and Australia, practically everywhere except some islands and the polar regions. I've ...

The Mass Audubon Society is asking for residents' assistance in spotting barn swallows to help the society gain greater understanding of the birds. Mass Audubon is conducting it's "big barn study" in ...

Some birds have taken to humans to an extent we never could have imagined. Three species found at San Angelo now nest in much or all of their range primarily on or in human constructs — buildings, ...

Brave Barn E. Swallow was in a fix. From far above on the housetop, his three siblings clustered wing-to-wing, just as they would have been in their crowded nest under the eave of the house, and ...