10,000 swifts, 1 chimney (1 Viewer)

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Michael Sessions

New member

• Sep 24, 2009

• #1

Hello,

We have an annual bird watching activity here in Portland, Oregon that draws hundreds of people every night during September. I'm not a birding expert but I did shoot some video I think you'll find entertaining.

Chapman Swifts

Cheers,

My Blog

 

Enji

Well-known member

• Sep 24, 2009

• #2

Wow, that's a lot of swifts! Never seen birds fly around in a big circle like that before...

 

Adin 92

Well-known member

• Sep 24, 2009

• #3

wow what species are they??

 

Jan-Paul Charteris

Sussex birder and budding moth enthusiast

• Sep 25, 2009

• #4

Adin 92 said:

wow what species are they??

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Vaux Swift according to the vid...

Must have taken some irony to name their fellow species Chimney Swift after seeing that unless they do the same of course!

Very impressive anyway...

Jan

 

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Dave B Smith

Well-known member

• Sep 25, 2009

• #5

Hello Michael,
On behalf of the staff, welcome to the Birdforum. Very interesting video you posted - nice work!

 

KC Foggin

Very, very long time member

Supporter

• Sep 25, 2009

• #6

Hello there and a warm welcome to you from those of us on staff here at BirdForum :t:

An amazing video and yes Jan, the chimney swifts are known for this as well.

 

Jan-Paul Charteris

Sussex birder and budding moth enthusiast

• Sep 25, 2009

• #7

KCFoggin said:

An amazing video and yes Jan, the chimney swifts are known for this as well.

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:t:Thanks for clearing that one up for me!

Hopefully the Vaux will start to copy the Chimmerney ones at crossing the Atlantic from time to time too

Jan

 

lockbreeze926

Well-known member

• Sep 25, 2009

• #8

There was once an episode of one of those true-life-cop-dramas when a patrol car was called out to a domestic residence which had been chosen for the night by swifts on migration.

Unfortunately, many of the birds (seemed also to be Vaux's and there were hundreds in the flock) tumbled right down the chimney into the house, with predictable slapstick chaos as a result.

Highly annoying for the house-owners, but still quite funny and fascinating behavior.