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 ...

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

Did you ever pause on a summer day to admire the swallows doing aerial gymnastics overhead? Those swallows are designed to maneuver incredibly quickly while flying at speeds up to 40 miles/hour.

Barn swallows are found all over the world. You can spot a barn swallow on six continents: North and South America, Europe, ...

So how did humans start building nest boxes? As they started building structures, certain species like the House Sparrow, House Martin, Barn Swallow and Barn Owl took to human-built structures to ...

When it comes to American barn owls, forget spring cleaning. The best time of year to clean out nest boxes to ready them for breeding pairs is the fall months of September through November, according ...

Frankly, I found a number in the millions surprising. It was my math, so a second effort definitely was needed. The answer was the same: Birds using 61 nests at the Wayzata Country Club (WCC) consumed ...

SAUKVILLE – Prairies are rich wildlife habitats. They are so bountiful, in fact, sometimes they even host species that evolved to breed elsewhere. For proof we need only look at two restored ...

My 8-year-old son adores barn swallows. Actually, he loves all swallows—tree, violet-green, cliff, bank, cave, you name it. He even loves red-rumped swallows, which is a species that doesn’t even live ...