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, ...

The violet-green swallow is a shiny green flier that swoops and soars in the West. Discover where to find them, what they eat ...

What birds appear in spring? A good number, though not as many as in fall: orioles, several warblers and flycatchers, lovely buntings and grosbeaks, and above all, swallows. My favorite of these, and ...

Avani Fachon, a CU undergraduate with a major in ecology and evolutionary biology and a minor in media production, has created an honors thesis project as a multimedia, interactive website titled ...

Every season has its splendors, but to say that any moment exceeds the height of spring requires a temporary forgetting. The trees have spread their leaves, the air rings with song and the sky is no ...

I often imagine that it would be great to have wings, and to be able to earn my living working as the swallows do. I’d even be willing to live on a diet of insects if I could spend my workday sailing ...

My 8-year-old son adores barn swallows. Actually, he loves all swallows—tree, violet-green, cliff, bank, cave, you name it. He even loves red-rumped swallows, which is a species that doesn’t even live ...

East Texans spent Sunday evening at the Longview Arboretum honoring the memories of lost loved ones. Church members and other East Texans celebrated the lighting of the Christmas tree at Green Acres ...

Avani Fachon, a CU undergraduate with a major in ecology and evolutionary biology and a minor in media production, has created an honors thesis project as a multimedia, interactive website titled ...