Swallows are among my favorite birds to watch. Their flight is so graceful as they swoop low over water and open fields foraging for insects. They are a social bunch, ...

A bunch of cliff swallow birds were making a nuisance of themselves at the Eldersburg Crossing Shopping Center, where they built nests on exterior walls. Their loud chirping and messy, muddy nests ...

The boys of summer catch flies.The birds of summer catch flies.Baseball and birdwatching may be a strange mix, but the last time I visited Veteran’s Stadium to watch a Phillies game, I was ...

Swallow-tailed kites make their nests in tall trees and are social birds, often congregating in flocks. The birds can be seen in Florida from March until about August, when they begin to migrate ...

Birds that lack tools to tear apart their food have to rely on their ability to swallow things whole, which can be a hazardous undertaking.

All this has been happening on beaches from Seattle to Edmonds to Everett, not in search of a movie star, but a swallow-tailed gull, a bird nearly 4,000 miles from its home in the Galapagos ...

Tree swallow nests across Pennsylvania are being collected for an investigation into the patterns that the common, fast-flying, cavity-nesting birds might incorporate into their nest construction ...

A Ray Gunn release date window has been set for Brad Bird’s long-gestating animated sci-fi movie before he gets his hands on The Incredibles 3. Bird was the writer and director of the previous ...

Conservationists are raising concerns after several bird boxes were destroyed during nesting and mating season for swallows in B.C.'s Shuswap region. Eight out of 89 bird boxes set up for swallows ...

A Western graduate student who studies bird conservation has started a petition hoping to save a thriving colony of bank swallows that have made their homes in the Byron Pit.