For example, the East Asian group, Hirundo rustica gutturalis, has a pale chest and shorter tail streamers—the elongated outer tail feathers. Hirundo rustica tytleri, found in Siberia, has long tail ...

One of them, the barn swallow (Hirundo rustica), in earlier centuries naturally nested in crevices on cliffs, in small caves and similar sites. About 95-99 percent of them now nest on sides of ...

For example, the East Asian group, Hirundo rustica gutturalis, has a pale chest and shorter tail streamers—the elongated ...

Every year, European barn swallows (Hirundo rustica rustica) migrate 6,000 miles (9,700 kilometers) from northern Europe to southern Africa, and then back again. The new clip, captured for ...

My study employs manipulation of nest parasite loads and direct visual observation to assess how ectoparasitism (external parasites) by mites in nests of the North American barn swallow (Hirundo ...

Claim to fame: Thanks to the abundance of barns, old silos, bridges and other human-built structures, barn swallows have become frequent sights in Missouri and elsewhere across much of the United ...

They have been here since April and are preparing for their return migration in late September or early October. It will involve an epic journey of 9,500 kilometres to South Africa. Most Irish ...

Earlier that week, Warrick and his team from Oregon State University had glued these tiny trackers, weighing less than a third of a gram, to 120 barn swallows (Hirundo rustica). “These birds are ...

Im Sprichwort „Eine Schwalbe macht noch keinen Sommer.“ hat sich die Beobachtung niedergeschlagen, dass einzelne Rauchschwalben zwar bereits Mitte März aus den afrikanischen Winterquartieren ...