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 ...

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 ...

Framework is an installation artwork that examines the intersection of ecology and culture and its relation to traditional building styles. The structure plays on the kind of building traditions that ...

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service made their final decision to demolish the Bri-Mar Stable that has been the focus of protests by activist group Save Our Swallows because the barn is home to what is ...

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

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Among the birds of summer, swallows hold prominent places. Places. Plural. Because several members of the swallow family spend the summer months in our area. These birds are closely related, as their ...

HADLEY — Supporters of what is believed to be the largest colony of barn swallows in Massachusetts are planning to protest the proposed demolition of the colony’s decades-old nesting habitat. That ...

Cliff Swallows have made their home in nests of mud along the store fronts at Eldersburg Crossing Shopping Center. Barn Swallows in their nests of mud under the awning of Michael's at Eldersburg ...