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Vaux’s Swift Watch
September 15, 2020 | 7:15PM
Watch on Facebook

More info: audubonportland.org

Every year in late August, one of Portland’s most spectacular natural events begins: Thousands of Vaux’s Swifts gather in the city as they prepare to migrate to Central America and Venezuela.

Migrating swifts often use chimneys as roosts (places to sleep), and they are likely to return to the same roost year after year. One swift population has been returning to the Chapman chimney since the 1980s, and it is one of the largest known roosting sites of migrating Vaux’s Swifts.

More history here: audubonportland.org/wcc/urban/vauxsswift

Chapman Swifts Pictures

Photo by Dan Viens

Photo by Dan Viens

Photo by Nora Zimmerly

Photo by K. Kendall

Description: On The Wing is a documentary film that tells the story of Portland’s Chapman Swifts. This trailer gives you a peek at the phenomenon and its cult following. More information at swiftsmovie.com