“I wouldn’t necessarily call them feeder birds,” Tara says, noting that you’d typically be unlikely to find a tree swallow in your yard the same way you might more typical songbirds.

Do swallow sightings have special meaning? Similar to the tree swallow, violet-green swallows are cavity nesters. They can nest in cliffs, but they’ll also use dead trees, old woodpecker holes ...

Best practices call for tree swallow and eastern bluebird nest boxes to be made of untreated wood with a small hole cut in one side. The size of the hole helps limit unwanted species from ...

The western counterpart of the tree swallow, the violet-green swallow has narrower wings and a shorter tail. This species frequently uses nest boxes. Polytypic (3 ssp., none separable in the field ...