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

The annual tree swallow phenomenon that occurs on Plum Island every year is just about over. There were amazing experiences to be had, even this past week. It seemed to dissipate during the second ...

Recently, I had the pleasure of going birding at Brazos Bend State Park with friends. One of our first sightings of the day was a flock of what had to be at least 500 tree swallows congregating on a ...

One of the great joys of spring is the first appearance of the tree swallows. In my yard, this event almost always occurs in the first week of April; this year was no exception. It was a close call, ...

For Wildlife Recovery Association's Barb Rogers, tree swallows are swift, smart and stunningly beautiful. However, there is a lot more to them. Their irridescent colors of blue and green flash in the ...

An annual project by the Juneau Audubon Society to provide boxes for tree swallows to nest in the City and Borough of Juneau had a successful year gathering data, even as the population of birds ...

Several times in the last few weeks I have responded to a request for help identifying a “big swarm of birds.” They were swirling, swooping and diving over the sea oats on Tybee, above a lagoon on ...

Watch along as Dr. Clay Corbin of Bloomsburg University bands some tree swallow chicks, it's all part of the Tree Swallow Project.

The swallows have started to gather on Plum Island and they will reach their peak by mid-August. Along the Parker River Wildlife Refuge, they feed on the bayberry on the dune side of the road, and the ...

It’s September and that means everyday tree swallows are putting on their spectacular autumnal avian display near the mouth of the Connecticut River. Hundreds of thousands of the birds come from all ...