Greensville resident Glenn Meldrum is no longer flying solo on his bid to build a nesting shed for barn swallows at nearby Johnson Tew Park and is now readying to land the project. He says efforts to ...

Did you ever pause on a summer day to admire the swallows doing aerial gymnastics overhead? Those swallows are designed to maneuver incredibly quickly while flying at speeds up to 40 miles/hour.

Barn swallows have returned in full force, sometimes seeming to completely take over the barn and ranch. Uncertain when the unique birds started arriving this spring or when they left last year. When ...

Claim to fame: Thanks to the abundance of barns, old silos, bridges and other human-built structures, barn swallows have become frequent sights in Missouri and elsewhere across much of the United ...

I attended the annual "Purple Martins 101" program in July at Cantigny Golf in Wheaton, conducted by Ray Feld, a devoted Cantigny volunteer. Feld monitors and maintains the busy purple martin colony ...