A bunch of cliff swallow birds were making a nuisance of themselves at the Eldersburg Crossing Shopping Center, where they ...

Many bird species have developed impressive defensive behaviors for warding off predators. Some, like those in the video, will dive-bomb or peck at attackers that get too close.

T he tree swallow is typically a straightforward enough bird to identify, even for newer birders. With shiny, almost ...

On any summer day at Presque Isle, if you are on the right beach, you have the opportunity to enjoy the aerial acrobatics of ...

These birds – including songbirds of various species, a swallow and a woodpecker – are among the nearly 1,900 birds found by BirdSafe KC volunteers. North America has lost more than one ...

Winter has finally made an appearance after a really nice, long and beautiful fall season. The change of seasons is what makes living in Western New York state so interesting. I’ve spoken to so ...

Tree swallows in central P.E.I. have some new homes, thanks to five watershed groups in the area. The groups have put up dozens of nesting boxes for the insect-eating birds as part of a ...

We have barn swallows to thank for another reason. Sadly, during in the Victorian era, milliners created women's hats using lavish arrays of bird feathers -- sometimes entire birds themselves.

Bank swallows prefer beetles and true bugs, but they'll eat pretty much any flying insect, said Heather Polowyk, an aerial insectivore conservation biologist with Birds Canada, based in Nova Scotia.

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 ...

To most people, deer are kind and gentle creatures that frolic in the forest. Whether it’s children’s movies or books that paint this friendly version of the animal, everyone seems to agree ...