Should municipal property be used as a birdhouse for barn swallows? Christopher Hilson, attorney for Rye, posed that question ...

Four Rye residents filed a lawsuit against the town for blocking a colony of barn swallows from a historic barn. The town closed the barn to the birds due to health concerns over fecal matter and has ...

The Goss Farm barn in Rye, New Hampshire, where barn swallows will not be allowed inside this year. A town-owned, antique barn will keep its windows shut this spring, over concerns about accumulated ...

The Goss Farm barn has been closed up to prevent the swallows from nesting there at the direction of the Rye Conservation ...

Ornithologist Arthur Bent’s words in the early 1900s still hold true today. “Everybody who notices birds at all knows, admires and loves the graceful, friendly barn swallow,” he explained. “No bird in ...

At this very moment, a few dozen birds are on their way to Rye, New Hampshire. The birds are barn swallows. And every spring, they migrate to nest inside an 18th century barn. But the swallows are in ...

The barn swallow is a pretty little bird. It also can be an aggressive little pest. Therefore, human beings, and this individual human, tend to have a love-hate relationship with the swallow. In ...

It was — for far more than one reason — for the birds. Barn swallows — with their young tucked in a pair of nests built in the low-ceiling between two rows of stanchioned cows — were my ...

Estonia and Austria, two European countries, have named this species their national bird. George Grinnell played a huge role in early conservation. After he became editor of Forest and Stream magazine ...

A town-owned, antique barn in New Hampshire will keep its windows shut this spring, over concerns about accumulated bird droppings. The birds — and many humans — are not pleased. The setting for this ...