I was working in my home office in Decatur one day last week when my wife, Laura, yelled to me from downstairs: “There’s a bird in the house.” I caught the bird, an adult chimney swift, in our dining ...

Chimney swifts are very fast fliers and spend most of their lives in midair. They eat, drink and mate while flying, only stopping to raise young. They even take their baths in flight by dipping in a ...

GREEN BAY, Wis. (WLUK) -- As fall migration is getting underway in parts of Northeast Wisconsin, some birds are starting to appear. Experts say chimney swifts gather in large flocks at dusk before ...

This story originally published online in The 9th Street Journal. It’s Tuesday evening at the Velvet Hippo’s rooftop bar. From the wooded deck, a few dozen hipster bargoers admire a picture-perfect ...

It was an appropriate place to watch the birds come home to roost. It was at the Homecoming Restaurant in Spring Green this past weekend where the migrating chimney swifts descended at dusk to the ...

Vaux’s swifts are small, migratory birds that travel from their breeding grounds in the Pacific Northwest to Central and South American each fall, roosting in chimneys and hollowed-out trees along the ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) – For decades, Portlanders have enjoyed the spectacle of tiny wings circling a chimney at Chapman Elementary School during the Vaux’s Swifts annual fall migration. This event ...

If your house has a brick chimney, you may have some unexpected bird visitors this summer. But please don’t shoo them away. “If it were me, I would say enjoy listening to them,” said Greg Harber with ...

PELHAM, Ala. (WBRC) - Thursday, Aug. 14 the Alabama Wildlife Center and Alabama Audubon held a rehabilitated bird release to the public at Oak Mountain State Park. If you have ever heard a bird ...