Summer is swallow season. Spring migration can in some ways seem like a less-dramatic affair than California’s fall migration of ducks and shorebirds, with a relatively subtle arrival of songbirds, ...

It’s certainly unscientific to refer to swallows as forming gangs, but the word seems appropriate at this time of year as swallows “gang up,” sometimes in the thousands, ahead of the fall migration.

They say we’ll always remember the moment an unforgettable event occurs. Unfortunately, it’s often associated with a terrible tragedy like 9/11, the day the Space Shuttle Challenger exploded or the ...

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 ...

For centuries, the arrival of thousands of cliff swallows transformed the skies above a small California town into one of ...

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, ...

The story of a single swallow who, taking a rest from southward flight at a mission in California, ultimately brings about the famed migration of swallows to the mission at San Juan Capistrano.

San Juan Capistrano businesses are centered around the annual spring migration of swallows to the south Orange County community where the it's a main tourist attraction. But in recent years, very few ...

“When the swallows come back to Capistrano” is a phrase with a long history in U.S. popular culture. It refers to a colony of cliff swallows located at Mission San Juan Capistrano in Southern ...

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, ...