Vaux's Happening is looking for volunteers this month to count the returning birds in Rainier, Eugene and Oregon City.

Chimney swifts — tiny birds that can eat up to 6,000 insects a day and whose population is in rapid decline — will have two ...

Thousands upon thousands of birds are expected to cross over Illinois as part of their spring migrations in coming days.

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 ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KATU) — The Vaux’s Swifts, known for their roosting at Chapman Elementary, may not choose their traditional roosting location this year. Right now, experts are tracking to see if they ...

Vaux's swifts are 4-inch, gray birds that migrate between Canada and Venezuela. Every year, the birds make a pit stop at Agate Hall in Eugene, a popular spectacle for residents. On a temperate, late ...

Ruby Free chats to author Mark Cocker about bringing his book One Midsummer’s Day: Swifts and the Story of Life on Earth to ...

The common swift is an astonishing bird, capable of spending up to 10 months in the air without landing. This remarkable ...

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 ...