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

“A number of them conglobulate together, by flying round and round, and then all in a heap throw themselves under water.” — “The Life of Samuel Johnson” by James Boswell, 1768 A faint glimmer of light ...

We’ve all got our favorite signs of the changing seasons: first trillium, first crocus, first evening peeper chorus, first gelatinous mass of frogs’ eggs in a vernal pool. One of mine is the sensation ...

If you’ve seen what seems like unusually large swarms of small birds swooping over and feeding on insects in the Fox River and other waterways leading to it, you’re not alone. “I, too, have noticed an ...