If you can’t regularly visit Seattle’s Woodland Park Zoo, check out the roving animal cam. The zoo features a new animal or exhibit angle every week. A family of North American barn swallows in their ...

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Even after they have paired with a male, the female North American barn swallow still comparison-shops for sexual partners. And forget personality, the females judge males by their looks: the reddish ...

Here is a typical conversation that I have with fellow birders when I’m trying to bird for swallows. “There’s a swallow. There it goes. Here it comes. I wish it would perch someplace.” Swallows fly a ...

Saturday, March 21, is the Swallows Day Parade in San Juan Capistrano. The cliff swallows fly from Argentina, one of the ...

Warmer spring temperatures and a longer growing season are proving to be good news for barn swallows. Over the past 35 years these birds have responded to global warming by taking more time over ...