The tree swallow is the only swallow that is truly swallow tailed, meaning the tail is deeply split and has white spots. The adult is blue-black above; cinnamon-buff below, with a darker throat. Most ...

Bluebirds aren't the only species to use nest boxes! Learn about tree swallows' nesting habits and why you should welcome ...

Caution is always the better part of valor when it comes to approaching a tree swallow nest box. If you don’t pay attention, you run the risk of being dive-bombed and potentially plunked on the head ...

Eastern bluebirds are checking out bird houses. They're getting ready for the nesting season. Are your bird houses in place and ready? While bluebirds have been here all winter, migratory tree ...

One of the great joys of spring is the first appearance of the tree swallows. In my yard, this event almost always occurs in the first week of April; this year was no exception. It was a close call, ...

Concern about how climate change affects food security usually focuses on agriculture in resource-poor countries. But disruptions to weather patterns threaten food supplies for wildlife too. Walk ...

For Wildlife Recovery Association's Barb Rogers, tree swallows are swift, smart and stunningly beautiful. However, there is a lot more to them. Their irridescent colors of blue and green flash in the ...

Pam and Joe Monahan don’t need TV. They have a nesting pair of tree swallows in a bluebird box in their West Neck backyard. The beautiful birds zoom back and forth, dawn to dusk, feeding their five ...

At a crowded Mendenhall Valley Public Library, people gathered for a Wildlife Wednesday hosted by the Southeast chapter of the Alaska Wildlife Alliance to hear naturalist Brenda Wright of the Juneau ...

Tree swallows fill the sky over the Connecticut River near Haddam, Conn. From late August to early October, as many as a million tree swallows gather on a small island near the mouth of the ...

ALONG BOULDER LAKE — Halle Lambeau had to duck just a bit when an adult tree swallow sprung for its next box and flew off, rattled by Lambeau’s effort to look inside the box for eggs. “You now have a ...