Whether you love watching barn swallows up close or dread the mess they leave behind, a Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service expert encourages you to take preventative action before the birds begin ...

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 ...

Should municipal property be used as a birdhouse for barn swallows? Christopher Hilson, attorney for Rye, posed that question ...

Lawsuit filed against Rye asserts barn swallows will experience “irreparable damage” if the birds are not allowed back into ...

Ornithologist Arthur Bent’s words in the early 1900s still hold true today. “Everybody who notices birds at all knows, admires and loves the graceful, friendly barn swallow,” he explained. “No bird in ...

A group of Rye residents is asking for a preliminary injunction to allow a colony of swallows to continue nesting in a barn ...

At this very moment, a few dozen birds are on their way to Rye, New Hampshire. The birds are barn swallows. And every spring, they migrate to nest inside an 18th century barn. But the swallows are in ...

One warm and muggy morning on my walk, I notice swallows gathering on overhead power lines. The pair closest to me are northern rough-wings, and they are well into the throes of courtship: she, ...

The barn swallow is a pretty little bird. It also can be an aggressive little pest. Therefore, human beings, and this individual human, tend to have a love-hate relationship with the swallow. In ...

HADLEY — Every spring, they faithfully return. Scores of the small birds with the long, forked tail and dark rump flutter through openings in a dimly lit, dilapidated stable, where they use mud and ...

While much of Malta remains consumed by the noise, promises and spectacle of the election campaign, a quieter and far gentler ...

A study reveals barn swallows in Manipur may have lost their migratory trait, settling permanently in the region.