At sunup on the last morning of June, I was again walking up our drive for the newspaper. For any bird lover, nothing can beat daybreak at that time of year with its dawn chorus. But on this ...

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 ...

Summer is swallow season. Spring migration can in some ways seem like a less-dramatic affair than California’s fall migration of ducks and shorebirds, with a relatively subtle arrival of songbirds, ...

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 ...

Among the birds of summer, swallows hold prominent places. Places. Plural. Because several members of the swallow family spend the summer months in our area. These birds are closely related, as their ...