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 ...

The first time I saw the lakeside property where we now live, a flock of swallows was flying overhead. The acrobatic birds – there must have been at least two dozen of them – took turns skimming over ...

I never tire of watching the aerial acrobatics of swallows as they swoop over fields, darting back and forth to snap up flying insects. With their smooth, flowing flight and pointed wings, they are ...

Migratory swallows in search of food arrived in west Sonoma County around the beginning of April, when insects were becoming more abundant. The streamlined aerial acrobats will stay here long enough ...

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, ...

NORTH CENTRE TWP. – Lauri Green nestled into her lawn chair and pointed binoculars at the house of a new family. The home, Nest Box 26, contained four tree swallows born nine days earlier. The birds’ ...