The most wide-spread members of the swallow family, barn swallows wing their way throughout the world, breeding generally in the Northern Hemisphere and wintering throughout most of the Southern ...

In the world of birds, where fancy can be as fleeting as flight, the color of the bird apparently has a profound effect on more than just its image. A new study of barn swallows reveals it also ...

These medium-sized owls have long, rounded wings and short tails, which combine with a buoyant, loping flight to give them a distinctive flight style. The legs are long and the head is smoothly ...

RYE — The barn at Goss Farm has been closed off to the public until the fall due to fecal buildup from barn swallows, frequent nesters inside the historic town property. Rye officials made the ...

Hundreds of birds take a break during a 1000-mile flight by perching on telephone wires and enjoying the morning sunshine, in photos just released by a French nature photographer. The photos, taken ...

GRAND RAPIDS, MI -- A barn owl featured in the Realm of Flight bird show at the John Ball Zoo got spooked by the audience and flew away during a show on June 5. The trouble with barn owls is that they ...

Rodents happen to the best of us. "Rats are everywhere," says Garland Buckner, owner-operator of Rat Patrol. "They're in rich areas in Danville and rough areas in East Oakland. They aren't choosy." ...

The barn owl, the silent hunter of dusk and dawn now threatened through habitat loss, has emerged as Britain's favourite farmland bird. It beat the skylark into second place in a ballot organised by ...