New research reveals why barn swallows are declining — and how our barns may be part of both the problem and the solution.

The barn swallow is a pretty little bird. It also can be an aggressive little pest. Therefore, human beings, and this individual human, tend to have a love-hate relationship with the swallow. In ...

Each morning at the Soldier Hollow Golf Course, marshall Jim Spellman is greeted by more than 100 soaring barn swallows.

Estonia and Austria, two European countries, have named this species their national bird. George Grinnell played a huge role in early conservation. After he became editor of Forest and Stream magazine ...

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 ...

Sometimes watching birds can be like selling ice cream - a particular species seems to show up as the flavor of the week. When I arrived at Carter's Lake in pursuit of the south polar skua, the first ...