In mythology, it was thought that swallows carried dead babies to heaven. in Irish myth, after Saint Patrick rid snakes from the country, they were replaced by barn swallows.

A look at the early life of a barn swallow nestling, from hatching blind and featherless to fledging, and how parents ...

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 ...

After the frenzy of searching for migratory birds and spring wildflowers in May, it’s time to enjoy nature in June before the ...

Barn swallow, 5 to 6 eggs, 2 broods each year ... laying a single egg in the unfortunate host bird’s nest. Some surprises here are tree swallows, which are cavity nesters like bluebirds, and are ...

Right now, it is the height of baby bird season. As dawn breaks, songbirds sing to declare their territories. Then they get ...

Spring has sprung, and the copious rains we received this past winter and early spring are showing themselves in the lush ...

I observed a female chipping sparrow with something in it’s beak. It looked like short, fine pieces of tan, dry grass.

In a scene straight out of a post-apocalyptic dystopian movie, a bird's nest constructed using fibre optic cable from the armed drones has been found in Ukraine. The picture of the nest has been ...

This became evident when an injured Barn Owl, found entangled in a barbed wire fence, became the center of a global ...