If you can’t regularly visit Seattle’s Woodland Park Zoo, check out the roving animal cam. The zoo features a new animal or exhibit angle every week. A family of North American barn swallows in their ...

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 ...

Nadia Shaikh looks up for swallows and the gathering signs that seasons are a’changing after summer exhaustion sets in. The ...

Ornithologist Arthur Bent’s words in the early 1900s still hold true today. “Everybody who notices birds at all knows, admires and loves the graceful, friendly barn swallow,” he explained. “No bird in ...

This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. New research shows that a little makeup quickly turns the wimpiest of ...

A young barn swallow perched on the ground of a barn. Even after leaving the nest, this fledgling was still being cared for by its parents while learning to fly. A UC Davis study shows how high or low ...

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 ...