Almost every day, beginning in April, I make time (or an excuse) to get out somewhere in my outdoor realm in Carbon County. Birds are the reason. One family of birds that makes their return here is ...

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

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I sat on the railing of the boardwalk to watch the aerial display, a display every bit as impressive as the air shows put on by the Blue Angels or Thunderbirds. All around and above me and ceaselessly ...

I sat on the railing of the boardwalk to watch the aerial display, a display every bit as impressive as the air shows put on by the Blue Angels or Thunderbirds. All around and above me and ceaselessly ...

Cliff swallows indeed prefer cliffs, building colonies of their gourd-shaped nests along the sheer vertical surfaces, but they also love concrete bridges over creeks and rivers. The underside of ...

Within the range of more ordinary cup-like woven nests, there is a lot of variation in construction, using different materials Among the thousands of bird species there is great variation in nesting ...

An adult barn swallow has a forked tail with white spots near the bottom edge, and a rust-colored chin. Photo by Rick Lewis. When perched, an adult’s dark, shiny back contrasts with a cream-colored ...

It was an odd place for a hummingbird nest, but there it was. I typically think about such nests being ghosts, because this was the first (and only) one I had ever seen. They are so small and so well ...

A bunch of cliff swallow birds were making a nuisance of themselves at the Eldersburg Crossing Shopping Center, where they built nests on exterior walls. Their loud chirping and messy, muddy nests may ...

Dr. Rohwer is the curator of birds and mammals at the Cornell University Museum of Vertebrates. Most birds go to great lengths to hide their nests. So when I find one, invariably so carefully crafted ...