From purple martins to barn swallows, find out how to spot and identify 8 members of the swallow bird family during summer.

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 ...

For Wildlife Recovery Association's Barb Rogers, tree swallows are swift, smart and stunningly beautiful. However, there is a lot more to them. Their irridescent colors of blue and green flash in the ...

There are eight species of swallows in North America with seven species in Montana. The cave swallow is mostly found in Texas and Mexico. Tree, violet-green, northern rough-winged, bank, barn, and ...

I can't recall anyone ever asking me anything about a rough-winged or a bank swallow. Drab brown and white feathers make them inconspicuous and probably uninteresting to most people. More colorful ...