An annual project by the Juneau Audubon Society to provide boxes for tree swallows to nest in the City and Borough of Juneau had a successful year gathering data, even as the population of birds ...

Pam and Joe Monahan don’t need TV. They have a nesting pair of tree swallows in a bluebird box in their West Neck backyard. The beautiful birds zoom back and forth, dawn to dusk, feeding their five ...

On a recent visit to Bethpage State Park, I went with Kathy Wegman, a retired environmental horticulturist, as she checked bluebird and tree swallow nest boxes. At the first bluebird nest box, a ...

Bluebirds aren't the only species to use nest boxes! Learn about tree swallows' nesting habits and why you should welcome them to your yard.

SAUKVILLE – Prairies are rich wildlife habitats. They are so bountiful, in fact, sometimes they even host species that evolved to breed elsewhere. For proof we need only look at two restored ...

Get any of our free daily email newsletters — news headlines, opinion, e-edition, obituaries and more. A minute’s walk up the East Gallatin Recreation Area Trail from Glen Lake Rotary Park, tree ...

At a crowded Mendenhall Valley Public Library, people gathered for a Wildlife Wednesday hosted by the Southeast chapter of the Alaska Wildlife Alliance to hear naturalist Brenda Wright of the Juneau ...

NORTH CENTRE TWP. – Lauri Green nestled into her lawn chair and pointed binoculars at the house of a new family. The home, Nest Box 26, contained four tree swallows born nine days earlier. The birds’ ...

ALONG BOULDER LAKE — Halle Lambeau had to duck just a bit when an adult tree swallow sprung for its next box and flew off, rattled by Lambeau’s effort to look inside the box for eggs. “You now have a ...

Warming temperatures from climate change cause tree swallows to nest up to two weeks earlier than they did in the 1970s, but ...

One of the great joys of spring is the first appearance of the tree swallows. In my yard, this event almost always occurs in the first week of April; this year was no exception. It was a close call, ...