The Vaux's Swift is a tiny bird – some people ... School has hosted a flock of swifts since the 1980s. The Portland swift count tends to peak in mid-September – this year, the first birds ...

The next two weeks will be peak times to watch the swifts in action. The Bird Alliance of Oregon (formerly known as Portland Audubon) has been counting migrating Vaux’s swifts in the Portland ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) – Watching Vaux’s Swifts roost in the chimney of Chapman Elementary School has been a Portland tradition for decades. But this year, the Bird Alliance of Oregon ...

Vaux’s swifts are fast-flying cigar-shaped birds that spend most of their lives in the air. They struggle to walk on flat ground and prefer hollow trees or chimneys with rough textures. In the ...

Vaux’s swifts draw hundreds, sometimes thousands, of people to Northwest Portland’s Chapman Elementary each night as the birds roost in the school’s chimney from late August to early October.

Good news — swift watching, one of Portland’s favorite September activities, is back. This will be the first time Portlanders gather for the annual Vaux’s swift watch since 2019. For the ...

Vaux’s swifts typically rely on hollow trees to serve as roosting sites, and they migrate through the Portland area each fall. With a decline in forest habitation, they also use chimneys ...

An annual tradition in Northwest Portland is back for the first time since the start of the pandemic. Dubbed “Swift Watch”, for decades thousands of Vaux’s swifts travel back to Portland to ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — A crowd of several hundred people gathered in the growing darkness outside Chapman Elementary School in Portland, Oregon, before the first Vaux's Swift darted into view ...

Related: Vaux’s swifts return early to Portland this year, but climate change might not be the only reason According to longtime watchers, the predator is a regular here. “(The swifts ...

PORTLAND, Ore. — A crowd of several hundred people gathered in the growing darkness outside Chapman Elementary School in Portland, Oregon, before the first Vaux's Swift darted into view high above.