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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

In March, right before spring break, a couple of Kutztown University bird watchers got together in the biology building to build some bird boxes that could bring more Eastern bluebirds and the elusive ...

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 ...

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 ...

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’ ...

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, ...