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 ...

You can't miss the flying acrobats - aka barn swallows - as you drive under overpasses. They began arriving in late March from winter homes in Central and South America. The majority probably made a ...

From symbolism to bug catching abilities, there's a lot to learn about a barn swallow. Learn about their nests, songs, range ...

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 ...

Dear Heloise: Our residential neighborhood has barn swallows. In mid-May, we realized that they had built a beautiful nest in the corner of our very small porch, and a female sat on it as the male ...

The most wide-spread members of the swallow family, barn swallows wing their way throughout the world, breeding generally in the Northern Hemisphere and wintering throughout most of the Southern ...

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 ...

If you’ve seen a petite bird with cobalt blue feathers, a rusty orange throat, tawny breast and a long, deeply-forked tail lately, it was likely a barn swallow. Barn swallows have returned to Humboldt ...

The barn swallow population has exploded at our place west of Gilby, N.D. We’ve had barn swallows each of the 16 years we’ve lived there, and sometimes cliff swallows, too, but never this many, ...

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.

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 ...