Allowing chimney swifts to roost in your home enormously helps conservation efforts (these birds are seeing a significant ...

Chimney swifts are dwindling in numbers and so the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources are asking for the public's help counting them.

The chimney swifts "don't land; they don't perch," sanctuary program director Michelle Romans said. "They mate, they eat, they live their whole lives in flight or inside of a chimney.

The chimney swift population has been dropping by about 1.6 percent a year since 1966. While the conservation group Partners in Flight estimates the current breeding population to be 8.8 million ...

Chimney swifts are small, insect-eating migratory birds that inhabit the East Coast during the summer before migrating back to South America for the winter. In Chapel Hill, ...

Thousands of Vaux’s Swifts gather overhead as they prepare to roost for the night at Chapaman Elementary in Portland, Oregon. During the month of September, migrating swifts often use chimneys ...

Chimney swifts typically migrate from South America and arrive in Ann Arbor in April, returning to historic roosting sites like the 415 W. Washington chimney where they huddle together en masse ...

The migrating Vaux’s swifts, which normally roost by the thousands in the old chimney at Portland’s Chapman Elementary School throughout September, have abandoned the site early this year.

These are Chimney Swift Towers that have been built and installed by volunteers from the Beaver Creek Wildlife Education Center with valuable assistance from other groups and individuals. The Beaver ...

Caption: Chimney swift bird counters track migration and more in Green Bay, August 22, 2024. (WLUK) "I've been watching chimney swifts for 24 years now. And I just really enjoy it.

Chimney Swifts are protected by the Migratory Bird Treaty Act, which makes it illegal to kill them, their eggs, or their nests. Their population has been cut in half in the past 50 years due to a ...

Chimney swifts historically used large, hollow trees for nests and roosts, but the structural degradation was unsafe for the birds, who are pest-controlling birds that eat flying insects such as ...