Photo Caption: These four baby barn swallows are the latest in a long series of broods to be raised under a porch in Bryan. Photograph by Forrest M. Mims III. Swallows are migrating birds that spend ...

Swallows are migrating birds that spend the winter in Central or South America. During spring they arrive all across the U.S., where they quickly begin building nests from blobs of mud. Barn swallows ...

Can birds throw temper tantrums? Probably not. This Barn Swallow juvenile, though, is giving a good imitation of one. It and a sibling were being fed by their parents in a meadow in Orono. The bird ...

Clearly they were about to fledge. The "baby" Barn Swallows were so large that they barely fit inside their nest of dried mud anymore. Based on color and size, they looked pretty much like adult Barn ...

An old saying goes, “One swallow doesn’t make a summer.” Fortunately, we don’t have to settle for just one species. During the summer, members of the swallow bird family are common all over North ...

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, ...

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 ...