A town-owned, antique barn will keep its windows shut this spring, over concerns about accumulated bird droppings. The birds ...

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, ...

A colony of barn swallows has returned to its summer home in New Hampshire, but the doors and windows of the barn where they ...

Barn swallows have been nesting in an old barn in Rye, N.H., for decades. This year, the returning birds will find themselves locked out, and that has ruffled a lot of feathers around town.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The most wide-spread members of the swallow family, barn swallows wing their way throughout the world, breeding generally in the ...

Saturday, March 21, is the Swallows Day Parade in San Juan Capistrano. The cliff swallows fly from Argentina, one of the longest migrations of any species. Cliff swallows are one of more than 350 bird ...