These barn swallows are infamous for their mud nests above doorways and for transforming ... flying things that we don’t want around our house. We don’t have to pay a contractor or insect ...

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 ...

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 ...

According to NBCDFW, experts say that barn swallows are resourceful and reuse their nests from year to year. And if birds are ...

attaching their nests to both the roof and the wall. House martins use mud to build their nests, which they collect from nearby ponds, streams and puddles. Both males and females collect the mud in ...

Birds build their nests out of everything from twigs and mud to spider silk. Some birds don’t even build a nest, and the places where they do build them can vary. For this month’s Chirp Chat, ...

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 ...