Learn how to identify a male and female tree swallow. Find out about their nests, song, range map and what tree swallows eat.

From purple martins to barn swallows, find out how to spot and identify 8 members of the swallow bird family during summer.

JOAQUIN AREA FLOOD CONTROL AGENCY. MEANWHILE, A TREE THAT HELD A BALD EAGLE NEST ON THE SHORE OF LAKE NATOMA CAME CRASHING DOWN IN THE WEEKEND’S STORM. THE GROUP IS CALLED FRIENDS OF LAKES FOLSOM AND ...

A common childhood warning about swallowing seeds is debunked. Your stomach's strong acids prevent any plant growth. Seeds are digested or pass through your body harmlessly. Rare medical cases involve ...

An invasive pest is threatening native honeybees in South Carolina, and officials are scrambling to contain the growing threat. Local residents spotted a massive yellow-legged hornet nest in Beaufort ...

MONTGOMERY COUNTY, Texas — Neighbors in a Porter-area community say they are devastated and angry after discovering that a large tree containing a long-established bald eagle nest was cut down earlier ...

“When the swallows come back to Capistrano” is a phrase with a long history in U.S. popular culture. It refers to a colony of cliff swallows located at Mission San Juan Capistrano in Southern ...

Cliff swallows indeed prefer cliffs, building colonies of their gourd-shaped nests along the sheer vertical surfaces, but they also love concrete bridges over creeks and rivers. The underside of ...

Since I first started putting up bluebird nesting boxes back in 2016, I have had to think about a much less-beloved bird, the house sparrow, that also loves nesting in these boxes. House sparrows are ...

Cliff Swallows have made their home in nests of mud along the store fronts at Eldersburg Crossing Shopping Center. Barn Swallows in their nests of mud under the awning of Michael's at Eldersburg ...

After the frenzy of searching for migratory birds and spring wildflowers in May, it’s time to enjoy nature in June before the extreme heat sets in. My sister and I found the perfect place to do so, ...

They don’t always build nests in barns. Often barn swallows will nest under bridges in large numbers. And sometimes a pair will build a nest against the ceiling on an open porch. I photographed this ...