Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The most wide-spread members of the swallow family, barn swallows wing their way throughout the world, breeding generally in the ...

Something is causing tree swallows across North America to shrink, and scientists tracking nearly 50 years of data just ...

Tree swallows in the northern U.S. and Canada face the greatest risk from climate change despite responding to temperature ...

A groundbreaking study reveals a stark 60% decline in insects at Canada's Long Point Bird Observatory since the 1970s, ...

Birds that eat pest insects are welcome in gardens, but nests built on homes can be more than a nuisance. Droppings near nest sites can pose a health hazard, and parasitic mites and insects associated ...

Cliff swallows are said by ornithologists to show the highest degree of colonization of any of the 89 swallow species in the world. Colonies can number from 200 to more than 2,000 nests. They could be ...

One is to count and track populations of these swallows over time. But the other is to help communicate the biology of these birds and what citizens can do to help them prosper into the future. For ...

The general trend in Marin bird migration is for most of winter’s abundant shorebirds and waterfowl to head north each spring, soon replaced by a variety of mostly insect-eating songbirds from Mexico ...

In the world of birds, where fancy can be as fleeting as flight, the color of the bird apparently has a profound effect on more than just its image. A new study of barn swallows reveals it also ...

New research published in a U.S. science journal found that as the number of insects declines, tree swallows at Long Point ...