An AgriLife Extension expert discusses how to limit barn swallow nests on structures while adhering to federal law.

They say we’ll always remember the moment an unforgettable event occurs. Unfortunately, it’s often associated with a terrible tragedy like 9/11, the day the Space Shuttle Challenger exploded or the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The most wide-spread members of the swallow family, barn swallows wing their way throughout the world, breeding generally in the ...

Two high school students from the Longview area have been selected to display their artwork at the Bullock Museum in Austin as part of a statewide art competition. Applications for Texas school ...

It’s certainly unscientific to refer to swallows as forming gangs, but the word seems appropriate at this time of year as swallows “gang up,” sometimes in the thousands, ahead of the fall migration.

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, ...

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (KTHV) -- The bird of the week for June 12 is the barn swallow. Glistening cobalt blue above and tawny below, Barn Swallows dart gracefully over fields, barnyards, and open water in ...

Many bird species bond with humans as a function of their lifestyle and their names often reflect those bonds, like house wren, house finch, house sparrow and barn swallow. Barn swallows often build ...

The glossy blue body of the barn swallow can appear quite dark in poor lighting and is contrasted by an orangish-brown belly. Their most noticeable feature is their graceful deeply forked tail, but ...