Early fall is migration season of the chimney swifts, small birds belonging to the swift family that roost inside chimneys.

Compared with other migratory birds, the common swift follows a very unusual pattern when it migrates from the breeding areas in Europe to its wintering locations south of the Sahara. This is what ...

Inmates at Dumfries prison have been building bird nesting boxes to help bolster the population of common swifts in the region. It is part of the Save our Swifts campaign which is being launched by ...

"They eat and sleep while they are airborne. This is something that researchers have believed since the 1950s, and now we can show that it's true", says Anders Hedenström, professor at the Department ...

As spring returns to Indiana, the snow melts away, trees begin to leaf out, and flowers bloom. Spring sends us outside once again, finally in T-shirts, enjoying our parks and gardens. For me, the ...