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

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 ...

Introduction -- 2010. Starved in the nest -- 2011. Devotion to the last fledgling -- 2012. A successful clutch -- 2013. Clutch size and weather wipeouts -- 2014. Nesting novice ; Experiments with ...

On a recent visit to Bethpage State Park, I went with Kathy Wegman, a retired environmental horticulturist, as she checked bluebird and tree swallow nest boxes. At the first bluebird nest box, a ...

SAUKVILLE – Prairies are rich wildlife habitats. They are so bountiful, in fact, sometimes they even host species that evolved to breed elsewhere. For proof we need only look at two restored ...

Birds are usually very choosy about where to put their nests. Some species prefer a site right next to a tree trunk where the nest is supported by small side branches, while others favor the ends of ...

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, ...

It’s certainly unscientific to refer to swallows as forming gangs, but the word seems appropriate at this time of year as swallows “gang up,” sometimes in the thousands, ahead of the fall migration.

In an effort to help tree swallows find homes and successfully breed, one woman is encouraging Halifax residents to build and install nesting boxes on their properties. Jessica Ryuzaki said the idea ...