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 ...

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 ...

Barn swallow nest. Credit: Andreas Eichler licensed under Creative Commons by-SA 4.0 A partially fledged barn swallow chick fell out of its nest in my barn in early July. I found it stuck to some ...

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 ...

Once caught by the thousands to be used in women’s hats, eating insects literally on the fly, and returning year after year to the same nesting sites, the American barn swallow is one of the ...

Christopher Hilson, attorney for the town of Rye and its Conservation Commission, posed that question May 22 as the dispute over nesting barn swallows being banned from the town’s historic Goss Farm ...

Rye officials ruled barn swallows will remain barred from Goss Farm's barn after voters approved competing warrant articles in a special election.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The historic bandstand at City Park, badly damaged in a fire in March, gained a new set of occupants this spring: barn swallows, ...

Framework is an installation artwork that examines the intersection of ecology and culture and its relation to traditional building styles. The structure plays on the kind of building traditions that ...

Barn swallow populations are declining in New Hampshire and Maine, leading to their listing as a species of special concern in Maine. Potential reasons for the decline include loss of open barns, ...