You can't miss the flying acrobats - aka barn swallows - as you drive under overpasses. They began arriving in late March from winter homes in Central and South America. The majority probably made a ...

It’s kite flying time. Not paper kites held aloft with a string, but those high-flying birds called swallow-tailed kites and Mississippi kites sailing buoyantly on outstretched wings. Groups of two ...

The cliff swallow is another bird that might deserve the title "signature of summer." Cliff swallows are abundant and easily recognized. They reward close observation, because they are beautiful birds ...

Birds exhibit a wide variety of fascinating nesting and offspring-rearing behaviors throughout their lifecycle. Against the ...

All birds in our area spend some time in the air. We have no flightless birds. But some are better aerialists than others, and some make greater use of the sky. The question arises because many ...

The general trend in Marin bird migration is for most of winter’s abundant shorebirds and waterfowl to head north each spring, soon replaced by a variety of mostly insect-eating songbirds from Mexico ...

Cliff swallows indeed prefer cliffs, building colonies of their gourd-shaped nests along the sheer vertical surfaces, but they also love concrete bridges over creeks and rivers. The underside of ...

AUSTIN (KXAN) — Love them or hate them, it’s the season for a special kind of flying squatter to return to Central Texas. Barn swallows are migrating back into our area, and once they set up on your ...