SAN JUAN CAPISTRANO – If singing to the swallows won’t lure them back to Mission San Juan Capistrano, maybe giving them a new home will do the trick. As the Swallows Day Festival, or Fiesta De Las ...

An estimated 40 bank swallows were seen foraging on the Connecticut River in Hinsdale on June 29 and included in the New Hampshire Audubon rare bird alert for this week.Bank swallows live in colonies ...

One warm and muggy morning on my walk, I notice swallows gathering on overhead power lines. The pair closest to me are northern rough-wings, and they are well into the throes of courtship: she, ...

Though autumn is officially a month away, the fall migration of birds has been in full swing for many weeks now. Shorebirds are blanketing the mud flats in Newburyport Harbor and Plum Island Sound at ...

THE SWALLOWS ARE supposed to return in March and April. Birds don’t always do what we expect them to do. Reports of swallow sightings began coming in this winter, and that is more than a little ...

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 ...

As they do each year on March 19, hordes of people have flocked to San Juan Capistrano, necks craned hopefully to the sky. They're eager to witness the annual return of the cliff swallows to the ...

One swallow may not a summer make but, then again, seldom does one see a lone swallow. Several species of swallows that make the L.V. region their summer homes have already returned with even bigger ...

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 ...

Development pushed the famous swallows away from their traditional spring haven at Mission San Juan Capistrano. That left tourists searching — mostly in vain — for the city’s most famously reliable ...