I never tire of watching the aerial acrobatics of swallows as they swoop over fields, darting back and forth to snap up flying insects. With their smooth, flowing flight and pointed wings, they are ...

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, ...

Saturday, March 21, is the Swallows Day Parade in San Juan Capistrano. The cliff swallows fly from Argentina, one of the ...

1. In many parts of the world, changes in agricultural land-use have led to significant declines of bird species, including aerial insectivores such as barn swallows. In particular, barn swallow ...

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 ...

Caution is always the better part of valor when it comes to approaching a tree swallow nest box. If you don’t pay attention, you run the risk of being dive-bombed and potentially plunked on the head ...

The tree swallow is typically a straightforward enough bird to identify, even for newer birders. With shiny, almost ...

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 ...