Placement, construction, shape and material are essential nest considerations. Each species meets its own needs with its own style, developed over eons. Many bird species employ feathers in their ...

Walk outside on a sunny midsummer day and look skyward from an open vantage point. Chances you’ll see a swallow in flight within the first minute.Swallows look like miniature fighter-jets gliding and ...

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, ...