The most wide-spread members of the swallow family, barn swallows wing their way throughout the world, breeding generally in the Northern Hemisphere and wintering throughout most of the Southern ...

A new large-scale study from CU Boulder and colleagues provides first evidence that a gargantuan, inhospitable plateau in Asia maintains the species barriers of some birds In the middle of Asia, there ...

Bedbugs are no fun, even when you’re a bird. The species that bothers humans — Cimex lectularius — only feasts on us. But other animals have to deal with their own versions of the nasty parasite.

Adjacent to the beautiful new visitor station at the Anahuac National Wildlife Refuge, the shell of the previous building hosts cliff and barn swallows. My wife and I stood under the circular roof of ...

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 ...

If you’ve seen a petite bird with cobalt blue feathers, a rusty orange throat, tawny breast and a long, deeply-forked tail lately, it was likely a barn swallow. Barn swallows have returned to Humboldt ...

Among the birds of summer, swallows hold prominent places. Places. Plural. Because several members of the swallow family spend the summer months in our area. These birds are closely related, as their ...

Barn swallows zip through the air in rapid twists and turns at speeds reaching 50 mph. When they make a pit stop, its to plaster mud pellets into their cup-shaped nests. We may see the nests under ...

Bird dispersal movements are thought to depend on complex demographic and genetic factors. Dr. Santiago Claramunt, Associate Curator of Birds at the Royal Ontario Museum (ROM) and Assistant Professor ...

The unusually long, oval egg of the Indonesian maleo may look a lot like a potato, but this bird is no slouch. When the chicks of these anvil-headed animals hatch, they're almost immediately able to ...