Summer is swallow season. Spring migration can in some ways seem like a less-dramatic affair than California’s fall migration of ducks and shorebirds, with a relatively subtle arrival of songbirds, ...

Recently, I had the pleasure of going birding at Brazos Bend State Park with friends. One of our first sightings of the day was a flock of what had to be at least 500 tree swallows congregating on a ...

Every season has its splendors, but to say that any moment exceeds the height of spring requires a temporary forgetting. The trees have spread their leaves, the air rings with song and the sky is no ...

A new paper in Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry indicates high levels of exposure to "forever chemicals" in the ...

There are eight species of swallows in North America with seven species in Montana. The cave swallow is mostly found in Texas and Mexico. Tree, violet-green, northern rough-winged, bank, barn, and ...

Thousands of swallows are showing up in Connecticut these days during the birds’ fall migration to the Carolinas and Gulf Coast. The Connecticut Audubon Society says the Connecticut River is one of ...

Swallows, people believed, overwinter in the mud beneath lakes and ponds and their associated marshes. Come spring, the swallows emerge from the mud, clean their feathers as they rise through the ...

NORTH CENTRE TWP. – Lauri Green nestled into her lawn chair and pointed binoculars at the house of a new family. The home, Nest Box 26, contained four tree swallows born nine days earlier. The birds’ ...

Not so long ago, people believed that when swallows disappeared in the fall they dove into ponds and spent the winter sleeping in mud. We now know that they fly to Central America for the winter, but ...

I have always associated the autumn nighthawk flight with Labor Day weekend, though peak numbers probably happen earlier. Hundreds of birds have already been tallied in Concord and the other southern ...

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 ...