Most of our understanding about evolutionary changes and the formation of new animal species is based on the historical record. But a relatively new population of barn swallows in Argentina may help ...

Prompting a flurry of shy giggles from an otherwise tense crowd, the Rye Conservation Commission described the typical barn swallow mating process at its Sept. 1, 2026 meeting. The RCC was outlining ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Since barn swallows have been in the news recently, I felt it behooved me to find out more about who they are and their status in ...

Estonia and Austria, two European countries, have named this species their national bird. George Grinnell played a huge role in early conservation. After he became editor of Forest and Stream magazine ...

In her Distinguished Research Lecture March 12, CU Boulder Professor Rebecca Safran will explore the recent and precipitous decrease in the population of barn swallows Some 10,000 years ago, the ...

Shawn Joyce resigned as Rye Conservation Commission chair, citing disputes over barn swallows, walking trails and a lack of ...

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 are a male barn swallow in the United States or the Mediterranean with dark red breast feathers, you’re apt to wow potential mates. But if you have long outer tail feathers in the United States ...

Usually peddled on urban pavements, this doodad is attention-getting — tied to a stable object with a flexible sting, the bird-toy would keep circling. Nothing far-fetched about the design. Birds go ...