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.

For hundreds of years, barn swallows have signaled the coming of spring. In many cultures, it is considered good luck to have barn swallows build nests on a person’s property. Artifacts depicting barn ...

From purple martins to barn swallows, find out how to spot and identify 8 members of the swallow bird family during summer.

So how did humans start building nest boxes? As they started building structures, certain species like the House Sparrow, House Martin, Barn Swallow and Barn Owl took to human-built structures to ...

Phoebes are back on the front door lintel; tree swallows are in the bird boxes we put up; barn swallows are in the barn after a hiatus of many years; the house wren has once again built his tiny, ...

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 ...