September is a big month for migratory birds. Several hundred species in Washington are heading either south or downslope to escape the impending harsh winter conditions. The very familiar barn ...

As a boy on the dairy farm I grew up on, barn swallows were as much a part of the farmyard and buildings as the livestock ...

At this very moment, a few dozen birds are on their way to Rye, New Hampshire. The birds are barn swallows. And every spring, they migrate to nest inside an 18th century barn. But the swallows are in ...

AGAINST THAT DECISION. KELLY O’BRIEN HAS MORE FROM THE GOSS FARM. BARN. SWALLOWS ARE A BIRD THAT IS VERY FAITHFUL TO THEIR NESTING SITE. 30 PAIRS OF BARN SWALLOWS HAVE CALLED THE BARN HOME FOR DECADES ...

Whether you love watching barn swallows up close or dread the mess they leave behind, a Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service expert encourages you to take preventative action before the birds begin ...

The Goss Farm barn has been closed up to prevent the swallows from nesting there at the direction of the Rye Conservation Commission.

Should municipal property be used as a birdhouse for barn swallows? Christopher Hilson, attorney for Rye, posed that question in Goss Farm dispute.

The activist organization Save Our Swallows chided the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s decision to demolish the Bri-Mar Stable. The group issued a statement Tuesday within hours after the USFWS ...