Did you ever pause on a summer day to admire the swallows doing aerial gymnastics overhead? Those swallows are designed to maneuver incredibly quickly while flying at speeds up to 40 miles/hour.

For hundreds of years, barn swallows have signaled the coming of spring. In many cultures, it is considered good luck to have barn swallows build nests on a person’s property. Artifacts depicting barn ...

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 ...

So how did humans start building nest boxes? As they started building structures, certain species like the House Sparrow, House Martin, Barn Swallow and Barn Owl took to human-built structures to ...

Caution is always the better part of valor when it comes to approaching a tree swallow nest box. If you don’t pay attention, you run the risk of being dive-bombed and potentially plunked on the head ...

A special kind of squatter is making its way to Texas and once they show up on your front porch, there's nothing you can legally do to remove them. We're talking about barn swallows, infamous for ...

The Rye Conservation Commission recently announced that swallows will not be welcome in the barn they have called home for ...

The setup, held together with black electrical tape, is part of a pilot program at the Fort River Division of the Silvio O. Conte National Fish and Wildlife Refuge. The collaboration between the U.S.