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

The gray catbirds departed in September, taking their feline-like calls and fondness for berries with them to Central America. The Cirque de Soleil-like acrobatic barn swallows disappeared in late ...

Reports of migrants arriving for a new nesting season will begin to appear in about three weeks. The Daily Bird Planner offered last year by the Minnesota Ornithologists’ Union gives median (midpoint) ...

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — You can see them pretty much anywhere in South Florida, taking flight over our skies. Swallow-tailed kites and their very distinct silhouette have returned following their ...

Last year it was a flamingo-palooza from Hurricane Idalia. Now a migrating swallow-tailed kite was picked up in Debby’s high winds and returned to North Florida. The bird, named Suwannee 22, was ...

Each year, as winter approaches, many bird species undertake an exhausting migration, sometimes hundreds or even thousands of miles long. Birds will fly south to find more temperate climates, which is ...

One of the most fascinating elements of observing birds is the phenomenon of migration. This is so alien to us that most humans register “bird migration” only as a phrase, an abstractly existing ...

Each year, birds set out on their annual spring migration, traveling to their summer feeding grounds. This time of year is when local birds that went south for the winter return, or when birds that ...

Bird migration represents one of nature’s most remarkable phenomena, where millions of feathered travelers navigate thousands of miles using nothing but instinct and celestial navigation. This aerial ...