An AgriLife Extension expert discusses how to limit barn swallow nests on structures while adhering to federal law.

One warm and muggy morning on my walk, I notice swallows gathering on overhead power lines. The pair closest to me are northern rough-wings, and they are well into the throes of courtship: she, ...

TOWNSEND, Ont. – The long grass sways as a soft summer wind sweeps under two strange structures, blowing with it the faint smell of manure, in an otherwise empty Ontario field. Under one, which looks ...

If you’ve seen a petite bird with cobalt blue feathers, a rusty orange throat, tawny breast and a long, deeply-forked tail lately, it was likely a barn swallow. Barn swallows have returned to Humboldt ...

Many bird species bond with humans as a function of their lifestyle and their names often reflect those bonds, like house wren, house finch, house sparrow and barn swallow. Barn swallows often build ...

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 ...

The world estimates are house sparrow 1.6 billion, European starling 1.3 billion, ring-billed gull 1.2 billion, and barn swallow 1.1 billion. At the other end of the list are 1,180 species, 12% of ...

This past week, in a quest to find refuge in nature and away from the coming apocalypse, I installed the Merlin Bird ID app to help me identify birds by sight and song. My first time using Merlin I ...

TOWNSEND, Ont. - The long grass sways as a soft summer wind sweeps under two strange structures, blowing with it the faint smell of manure, in an otherwise empty Ontario field. Under one, which looks ...

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