Swallows are among my favorite birds to watch. Their flight is so graceful as they swoop low over water and open fields foraging for insects. They are a social bunch, too, often performing their ...

The barn swallow is bird of the week. It's hard to name any other bird in the last week of August. Barn swallows are abundant in country places. They've finished nesting. The last young-of-the-year at ...

Birds exhibit a wide variety of fascinating nesting and offspring-rearing behaviors throughout their lifecycle. Against the odds, they protect and guide their young from hatching to leaving the nest ...