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 have returned in full force, sometimes seeming to completely take over the barn and ranch. Uncertain when the unique birds started arriving this spring or when they left last year. When ...

From purple martins to barn swallows, find out how to spot and identify 8 members of the swallow bird family during summer.

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, ...

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 ...

The barn swallows have fledged. Five young-of-the-year birds left a nest under the eaves of our garage on Wednesday. Others in the loose colony of swallows at our place soon followed. This has created ...

Claim to fame: Thanks to the abundance of barns, old silos, bridges and other human-built structures, barn swallows have become frequent sights in Missouri and elsewhere across much of the United ...

If you can’t regularly visit Seattle’s Woodland Park Zoo, check out the roving animal cam. The zoo features a new animal or exhibit angle every week. A family of North American barn swallows in their ...

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 ...

Cliff swallows first caught my attention this year when I saw them nesting under a bridge in The Woodlands. In summers past, the bridge on Lake Woodlands Drive was a great place to see nesting barn ...

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 ...