The spring migratory season got off to an encouraging start for one threatened bird species, a national conservation group ...

A part of Southeast Michigan's industrial past has become a key habitat for a very odd bird — the aptly named chimney swift. Chances are you've never seen a chimney swift up close. And you've ...

was lobbying for saving the chimney as habitat for the neotropical birds protected under the federal Migratory Bird Treaty Act. Chimney swifts historically roosted in hollow trees, but heavy ...

Gordon Moore, son of Tim and Andrea Moore and a senior from Mahoning County Career & Technical Center, recently completed a chimney swift tower that will allow the small, unique birds to nest safely.

Amid the ongoing demolition of dozens of buildings in the way of Hamilton’s LRT, Metrolinx is also constructing a new home — for threatened chimney swifts ... to replace habitat for avian ...

However, habitat will be lost in an unexpected place when the old school is eventually demolished: the chimney. A nesting pair of chimney swifts lives within the structure rising up above the ...

Chimney swifts, a type of small, insect-eating bird native to the eastern United States, originally nested in hollow old growth trees, but pressure from deforestation and habitat encroachment caused ...

The fate of an orphaned chimney-turned-birdhouse along Hamilton’s planned LRT route will quite literally remain up in the air for now, says Ontario’s transit agency. Metrolinx has been buying ...

Chimney swifts dart into a cavity inside the iconic Davie Polar tree at UNC-Chapel Hill’s McCorkle Place on Wednesday, Sept. 18, 2024. Create a swift habitat: Pass on pesticides in favor of ...

Swarms of chimney swifts should have been in downtown Chapel Hill by late August, but birdwatcher Barbara Driscoll saw only a few, despite hearing their familiar twittering sound. She followed it ...

They also have excellent vision, helping them slow down just in time to enter a chimney. Create a swift habitat: Pass on pesticides in favor of native plants, and let leaves rot on the ground ...