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| Help Us Track Houston's Chimney Swifts! |
How to Participate
- Look for Chimney Swift activity - both nesting and roosting.
- Send us your reports. Tell us if you observe Chimney Swift activity and where it is.
- We'll track your results on a map and post them on this site. Only the neighborhoods will be posted. No home addresses will be displayed.
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Happening Now!
Pershing/Whole Foods Market Count
Pam Smolen leads a count at Pershing Middle School and Whole Foods Market in Bellaire. On September 23 there were 19 swifts at Whole Foods Market. The next evening they counted 377 swifts at St. Paul's Church.
Swifts Over Dayton
Barbara Tilton is leading a swift count at the old American Rice Growers Association rice dryer in Dayton, Liberty County. On October 2 they counted 230 swifts.
The Audubon At Home Birdscapes Blog has posted a great entry about Chimney Swift Towers, which includes a link to the HAS ELMS tower.
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Chimney Swift Activity in Houston
Your sightings will be plotted on these maps. The maps are updated weekly. Please click on each map for a larger, pdf version
Did you know?
 Chimney Swifts eat small flying insects less than 0.2 inch in length including mosquitoes, midges, flies, spittlebugs, aphids, winged ants, tiny bees and wasps, mayflies, stoneflies, and termites. Historical data demonstrates that the pellets of food given nestlings can contain more than 200 insects. Unlike many bird species where the only oldest / strongest nestling is fed, Chimney Swifts feed all their nestlings. The weakest / youngest nestling has been observed being fed first.
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