Often unmated barn swallows "adopt" a family and help raise the chicks. These helper birds may perform an assortment of tasks, including nest building, incubating eggs and brooding.

“Unfortunately, barn swallows build their nest out of mud, and got the name barn swallow ‘cause they like to build under eaves of houses, barns, porches, sheds that they can be kind of messy ...

Cliff swallows, in the mud nest on the left, and a barn swallow on its nest on the right, raise their young under a pavillion at the Anahuac National Wildlife Refuge, on the Texas Coast.

A review of barn swallow (Hirundo rustica) nestings in natural sites reveals that few reported natural nest sites are presently active in North America. A shift from natural sites to human sites took ...

A. Sherwood Weisheit, Phillip D. Creighton, Interference by House Sparrows in Nesting Activities of Barn Swallows (Interferencia de Passer domesticus en el Anidamiento de Hirundo rustica), Journal of ...

When the family purchased the home, the barn was filled with 75 to 100 swallow nests, she recalled. She and her husband David needed to wear boots in there because of the droppings.

Barn swallows are seen here in Illinois during their nesting season. Most often they are noticed in large numbers around open farm buildings, where they build their nests in the rafters and eaves.

Maureen told me about barn swallows that, year after year, nest on a light fixture halfway down the ramp to the underground garage of her condo. She loves watching these elegant, long-tailed ...

A nesting bird throughout Minnesota, the barn swallow is least numerous in heavily wooded areas and most common in farm (and formerly prairie) areas. Originally they nested on the rocky faces of ...

DEAR HELOISE: Our residential neighborhood has barn swallows. In mid-May, we realized that they had built a beautiful nest in the corner of our very small porch, and a female sat on it as the male ...

Which brings us to Tree Swallows. Tree Swallows remain in the nest for as much as a week longer than, say, bluebirds. Bluebirds fledge in 13 or 14 days, swallows in about 20.