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

Barn swallows are found all over the world. You can spot a barn swallow on six continents: North and South America, Europe, ...

The barn swallow is a pretty little bird. It also can be an aggressive little pest. Therefore, human beings, and this individual human, tend to have a love-hate relationship with the swallow. In ...

There is an unintended but exquisite exposition of relativity in ornithologist V. Santharam’s observation about the red-rumped swallows. “The red-rumped swallow becomes a bit uncommon when the barn ...

If you are a male barn swallow in the United States or the Mediterranean with dark red breast feathers, you're apt to wow potential mates. But if you have long outer tail feathers in the United States ...

A new study led by the University of Colorado at Boulder has shown the testosterone of male North American barn swallows skyrocketed early in the breeding season when their breast colors were ...