Vaux’s Swifts: a west coast story

Vaux’s Swifts:  a west coast story

Presenter:  Larry Schwitters

Wednesday, November 15 at 6:30 p.m. on Facebook Live

You’ve seen us with our clickers at Swift Watch – this is your chance to hear from the guy behind our clickers and data collection!

Larry Schwitters started Audubon’s Vaux’s Happening Project in 2007 as a successful effort to save a school chimney that was one of only two well-known big number Vaux’s roost sites in Washington State. The project has now documented over 200 roosting sites from the Yukon to Guatemala that have sheltered roosting Vaux’s Swifts over 23 million times in the last 32 migrations.  Umpqua Valley Audubon Society has been submitting data since the project began and started our formal Swift Watches in 2011.

Schwitters will also share images and information captured by the project’s chimney surveillance cameras, precision temperature recorders, and radio tracking transmitters.

The program is presented by the Umpqua Valley Audubon Society and the Roseburg Public Library.

You do not need a Facebook account to access the program.  Just use this link:  https://www.facebook.com/roseburglibrary