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 ...

Ornithologist Arthur Bent’s words in the early 1900s still hold true today. “Everybody who notices birds at all knows, admires and loves the graceful, friendly barn swallow,” he explained. “No bird in ...

Dear Heloise: Our residential neighborhood has barn swallows. In mid-May, we realized that they had built a beautiful nest in the corner of our very small porch, and a female sat on it as the male ...

Barn swallows zip through the air in rapid twists and turns at speeds reaching 50 mph. When they make a pit stop, its to plaster mud pellets into their cup-shaped nests. We may see the nests under ...

Be grateful for the arrival of barn swallows, those aerial acrobats that scoop up mouthfuls of mosquitoes. They work hard to catch those pesky flying insects around bridges, freeway overpasses, ...

Framework is an installation artwork that examines the intersection of ecology and culture and its relation to traditional building styles. The structure plays on the kind of building traditions that ...

Barn swallows have returned in full force, sometimes seeming to completely take over the barn and ranch. Uncertain when the unique birds started arriving this spring or when they left last year. When ...

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