Spring is in the air — which means nest-making season is upon us! For this month’s Chirp Chat, Lake Effect’s Xcaret Nuñez ...

We're talking about barn swallows, infamous for their mud nests above doorways and for transforming front porches into bathrooms. "They don't fly off, they don't go use the bathroom. They use it ...

Of the eight species of swallows in North America, barn and cliff swallows are considered the most problematic for property owners because they build mud nests attached to houses, barns and other ...

Photo from Chun-Fu Lin via Lin, Chang, Matsui, Shen, Tominaga and Lin (2025) In a wetland of central Taiwan, a “slender” creature poked its “triangular” head out of a mud nest and made an ...

So they'll scrape away the leaves that are on the ground and lay their eggs there. They're perfectly camouflaged to blend in with the surroundings, so they build a type of scrape nest.” ...