Baby Birds Are More Vulnerable Than Anyone Realized, and Heat Is Only Part of It ...

If you can’t regularly visit Seattle’s Woodland Park Zoo, check out the roving animal cam. The zoo features a new animal or exhibit angle every week. A family of North American barn swallows in their ...

Experiences in the first days and weeks of life can have a profound impact on humans — and birds. A new study led by Sage ...

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 ...

Here is a typical conversation that I have with fellow birders when I’m trying to bird for swallows. “There’s a swallow. There it goes. Here it comes. I wish it would perch someplace.” Swallows fly a ...

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 ...

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

Weather's early impact: Cold snaps in the first five days after hatching stunted growth, especially for smaller chicks with less food from parents. Heat no relief: Hot weather reduced growth during ...

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