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I can't recall anyone ever asking me anything about a rough-winged or a bank swallow. Drab brown and white feathers make them inconspicuous and probably uninteresting to most people. More colorful ...

It’s a paradox that bank swallows, birds that epitomize aerial agility, actually nest in a hole in the ground. These members of the Hirundinidae family thumb their beaks at another tradition: They ...

A New Brunswick non-profit that promotes biodiversity and sustainable ecology is asking people to be on the lookout for bank swallows. The Kennebecasis Watershed Restoration Committee says the little ...

Loading external pages may require significantly more data usage than loading CBC Lite story pages. Parks Canada is launching a new project this fall to listen for a species of tiny birds that make ...

I often imagine that it would be great to have wings, and to be able to earn my living working as the swallows do. I’d even be willing to live on a diet of insects if I could spend my workday sailing ...

I have a question about swallows. I understand that tree swallows nest in holes in trees and barn swallows live in barns. Their name matches their nesting location. But could you explain about ...

Several of the swallows are among the first birds to arrive each spring. The first tree swallow was seen this year in Brevard about the third week of February, which was at least two weeks earlier ...

An old saying goes, “One swallow doesn’t make a summer.” Fortunately, we don’t have to settle for just one species. During the summer, members of the swallow bird family are common all over North ...

Several times in the last few weeks I have responded to a request for help identifying a “big swarm of birds.” They were swirling, swooping and diving over the sea oats on Tybee, above a lagoon on ...