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

Welcome to the first installment of “The Coolest Birds.” When I launched Paste Magazine with friends back in 2002, it was about our collective passion—for music, film, books and culture. As we’ve ...

The four most numerous bird species in the world as listed by the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) — house sparrow, barn swallow, European starling and ring-billed gull — are found in Minnesota in ...

The annual swallow show is ramping up on Plum Island! Plentiful fruit and insects on the Parker River Refuge attracts tens of thousands of swallows in mid-August, and this birding spectacle is one ...

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, ...

Plentiful fruit and insects at the Parker River refuge attracts tens of thousands of swallows in mid-August and this birding spectacle is one worth seeing before they are gone in the next week or two.

One swallow may not a summer make but, then again, seldom does one see a lone swallow. Several species of swallows that make the L.V. region their summer homes have already returned with even bigger ...

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 ...