Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The most wide-spread members of the swallow family, barn swallows wing their way throughout the world, breeding generally in the ...

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 the Seacoast area. Do we need to worry about closing the doors to a ...

Extinction: the permanent loss of a species. It is deeply troubling—and scientists and birdwatchers are ringing the alarm about a bird species that only a few decades ago was widespread and very ...

Selby, North Yorkshire: I used to love watching them fly, they’re such acrobats. But now they’re gone, so I’m watching other species instead This summer we had some swallow visitors from Africa ...

The general trend in Marin bird migration is for most of winter’s abundant shorebirds and waterfowl to head north each spring, soon replaced by a variety of mostly insect-eating songbirds from Mexico ...

Development pushed the famous swallows away from their traditional spring haven at Mission San Juan Capistrano. That left tourists searching — mostly in vain — for the city’s most famously reliable ...