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 ...

Citizen petition looks to protect barn swallows in Rye after migratory birds are blocked from Goss Farm's historic barn.

Tiny barn swallows weigh about the same as around eight pennies or 17 to 20 grams. While building their nests, these small birds make about 1,000 trips to the ground to add layer after layer. The ...

The Rye Conservation Commission voted to seal off the Goss Farm barn from migratory barn swallows due to health concerns over their droppings. Residents and a former state senator have urged the ...

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 ...

Barn swallows have been nesting in an old barn in Rye, N.H., for decades. This year, the returning birds will find themselves locked out, and that has ruffled a lot of feathers around town.

The barn swallow population has exploded at our place west of Gilby, N.D. We’ve had barn swallows each of the 16 years we’ve lived there, and sometimes cliff swallows, too, but never this many, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Save Our Swallows group hosts rally outside of Rye barn to speak out against banning Barn Swallows from nesting there ...

It was — for far more than one reason — for the birds. Barn swallows — with their young tucked in a pair of nests built in the low-ceiling between two rows of stanchioned cows — were my ...