Beauty is in the eye of the beholder—even if that beholder is a barn swallow. Depending on where the birds live, some of them may favor mates with a paler chest color while others find a redder chest ...

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, ...

The barn swallow is an acrobatic bird, with its distinctive profile in flight, that's at home around humans, nesting on bridge abutments, the rafters of barns, sheds, and the eaves of porches. They ...

September is a big month for migratory birds. Several hundred species in Washington are heading either south or downslope to escape the impending harsh winter conditions. The very familiar barn ...

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 ...

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, ...

Depending on who you ask, the project is either a promising avenue of inquiry into conservation strategies for a species that’s common but in decline — or, it’s a way for the federal agency to sell a ...

I enjoy watching the barn swallows gliding with the ease and grace of Olympic figure skaters through our rural Waconia yard and listening to their musical chattering. They are here to feed on ...

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 ...

Summer is swallow season. Spring migration can in some ways seem like a less-dramatic affair than California’s fall migration of ducks and shorebirds, with a relatively subtle arrival of songbirds, ...