No one knows exactly where Vaux's (pronounced "vauks") swifts spend the winter, or the details of their migration route. But we do know the birds need chimneys. AP Photo / The Press Democrat, John ...

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 ...

This is the incredible moment a murmuration of Vaux's swifts fly over a home in Corona, California on May 4. The birds are in the process of migrating and have chosen a neighbor's uncapped chimney to ...

As Vaux's swifts change up their migration habits, Portlanders wonder where to go to keep watching Joe Liebezeit with the Bird Alliance of Oregon explains why the migratory birds might be moving away ...

PORTLAND, Ore. — It seems that the familiar Vaux's swifts have returned to Portland in full flood — but at a new location. Every fall, the swifts migrate through the Portland area, and for decades, it ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — After a nearly two-week absence, the Vaux’s Swifts have returned to Portland area chimneys. Chapman Elementary School’s Vaux’s Swifts roosting location has gone vacant as the ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — After not returning to Chapman Elementary School for the past year, the Vaux’s Swifts appear to have found a new chimney to call home, and it’s at a different Portland ...