We have barn swallows to thank for another reason. Sadly, during in the Victorian era, milliners created women's hats using lavish arrays of bird feathers -- sometimes entire birds themselves.

The ubiquitous barn swallow, found on every continent except Antarctica, is a wondrous migrator. The barn swallows of North America journey over 12,000 miles in migrations as far south as ...

It has been estimated that over 100,000 pairs of Barn Swallows breed in Ireland and Britain each summer and that over one million pairs of these birds pass through these islands on migration.

Barn swallows migrate each year to North America during the springtime for breeding season. “Barn swallows are pretty common here in East Texas,” says Jessica Coleman the Secretary with Tyler ...

Since the barn swallow uses our barns or a garage if the door is open, it be'comes familiar to many of us when it builds its mud nest on a beam inside. Shown here is the adult barn swallow.

In the middle of Asia, there is a vast, high-altitude desert that not only helped shape the evolution of barn swallows—and likely other birds, too—but continues to keep them distinct by altering ...

Few birds are more perfect examples of this arriving troop than the swallows, champions of both bug-catching and long-distance migration that are also among our most visible spring birds.

Although I’m not saying that not stopping the barn swallow nests and the chicks from being destroyed caused the summer of my misery and discontent, I’m not taking any chances.