Summit County isn’t Capistrano, but summer visitors here in the rarified air of our high mountains might identify with that song about birds and spring on the California coast. The song’s lyrics ...

One warm and muggy morning on my walk, I notice swallows gathering on overhead power lines. The pair closest to me are northern rough-wings, and they are well into the throes of courtship: she, ...

An old saying goes, “One swallow doesn’t make a summer.” Fortunately, we don’t have to settle for just one species. During the summer, members of the swallow bird family are common all over North ...

Though autumn is officially a month away, the fall migration of birds has been in full swing for many weeks now. Shorebirds are blanketing the mud flats in Newburyport Harbor and Plum Island Sound at ...

The general trend in Marin bird migration is for most of winter’s abundant shorebirds and waterfowl to head north each spring, soon replaced by a variety of mostly insect-eating songbirds from Mexico ...

Development pushed the famous swallows away from their traditional spring haven at Mission San Juan Capistrano. That left tourists searching — mostly in vain — for the city’s most famously reliable ...

Saturday, March 21, is the Swallows Day Parade in San Juan Capistrano. The cliff swallows fly from Argentina, one of the longest migrations of any species. Cliff swallows are one of more than 350 bird ...