On agricultural landscapes, pesticides travel through food webs and can negatively affect local wildlife populations. However, few studies have considered the long-term, cumulative effect of multiple ...

Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, Vol. 18, No. 3 (1986), pp. 199-206 (8 pages) We investigated the division of labor in male and female tree swallows by measuring the rate of food delivery to ...

We studied the foraging ecology of a population of Tree Swallows (Tachycineta bicolor) breeding in New York State over a period of 5 years. While feeding nestlings, adult Tree Swallows tended to spend ...

Tree swallows near U.S. bases showed high PFAS levels, revealing widespread chemical exposure from firefighting foam.

Pam and Joe Monahan don’t need TV. They have a nesting pair of tree swallows in a bluebird box in their West Neck backyard. The beautiful birds zoom back and forth, dawn to dusk, feeding their five ...

Stretches of unseasonably warm February weather triggered early behavior among birds. During late February, birders reported not just nesting but incubating bluebirds. Downy woodpeckers chased each ...