Recently, I had the pleasure of going birding at Brazos Bend State Park with friends. One of our first sightings of the day was a flock of what had to be at least 500 tree swallows congregating on a ...

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 ...

Walk outside on a sunny midsummer day and look skyward from an open vantage point. Chances you’ll see a swallow in flight within the first minute.Swallows look like miniature fighter-jets gliding and ...

Summer is swallow season. Spring migration can in some ways seem like a less-dramatic affair than California’s fall migration of ducks and shorebirds, with a relatively subtle arrival of songbirds, ...

When going for walks in late July, much of the route is spent looking at summer wildflowers; many still in bloom while others have gone to seed. New ones are seen each day. In the woods, more moisture ...

Several times in the last few weeks I have responded to a request for help identifying a “big swarm of birds.” They were swirling, swooping and diving over the sea oats on Tybee, above a lagoon on ...