You are able to gift 5 more articles this month. Anyone can access the link you share with no account required. Learn more. The past few weeks I’ve focused on insect eating birds. Here’s another – the ...

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 ...

Loading external pages may require significantly more data usage. Parks Canada is launching a new project this fall to listen for a species of tiny birds that make their home in the red cliffs of ...

I remember looking out at the birdfeeder and seeing it crammed full of evening grosbeaks — large, black-and-yellow finches with large bills. They reminded me of big wasps, in a way. They would show up ...

An ongoing city restoration project at a bird sanctuary in Calgary is now working around the nesting schedule of a threatened bird species in Canada, and seeing more of the birds return. The Inglewood ...

It’s a paradox that bank swallows, birds that epitomize aerial agility, actually nest in a hole in the ground. These members of the Hirundinidae family thumb their beaks at another tradition: They ...

FORT WAINWRIGHT, Alaska -- (May 11, 2012) We experience problems with unwanted guests this time of year. We're not talking about visiting in-laws, but nesting birds. Migratory swallows include both ...

Experts say a colony of bank swallows apparently have decided a wall of fresh sand at a Highland Park beach would be a fine place to raising their young this summer. The bank swallows have burrowed ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Bank swallows are small birds that burrow into the soil to build their nests. Oilsands operator Suncor has been fined for burying ...

Oilsands giant Suncor has been fined $5,000 for burying known habitat for bank swallows during mining operations in northern Alberta three years ago. The Calgary-based company was issued the penalty ...