A SWIFT NIGHT OUT

2005

A Continent-wide Chimney Swift Roost Monitoring Project
Text Box: Pittsburg, Crawford County, KS - 92, 80, 11, 2, 56 Toronto, ON: Buddhist Temple - 1 / 30 Clemmons, SC: old Clemmons school - 4600 Chapel Hill, NC: Battle Hall (U of NC) - ~300 Kenosha, WI: First Methodist Church - 69 Pontiac, SC: Clemson U / Sandhills Exp. Stat. - (25) Newton Falls, OH: old house chimney - 4 Cornwall, ON: St. Andrew’s RC Church - 2 Travis County, TX: swift towers - 98, 124, 74, 135 Memphis, TN: Snowden School - 465 Nashville, TN: Tusculum Elementary - 3 / (24) Austin, TX: O’Henry Middle School - ~ 620 Sumter, SC: residential Chimney - ~4 (20) Buffalo Grove, IL: residential chimney - 10 Marietta, GA: residential chimney - 1 Griegsville, NY: York Central School - 228 Geneseo, NY: residential chimney - 60 Peterborough, ON: industrial chimney - 158 Racine, WI: commercial chimney - 16 Delaware, OH: National Guard Armory - 202 / 483 Abbeville, AL: residential chimney - 18 / 24 Ellicott City, MD: commercial chimney - 0 Lexington, SC: Lexington Intermediate School - 309 Lexington, SC: Lexington County Hist. Museum - 32 Memphis, TN: tall chimney at Shelby Farms - 2279 Ft. Walton Beach, FL: residential chimney - 24 Palm Beach Gardens, FL: res. chimney - adults feeding young Orchard Park, NY: Orchard Pk. Mid. Sch. - ~40/50 Wilmington, DE: Ursuline University - 146 Potsdam, NY: Clarkson Univ. Alumni Gym - 354 Morehead City, NC: West Carteret High School - 60 Havaloc, NC: Arthur Edward School - +300 Whitefish Bay, WI: 0 Ashville, NC: The Grove Arcade bldg. - 86 Mississauga, ON: Streetsville United Church - 120 Brampton, ON: old stone mill chimney - 62 Muskogee, OK: 235 / 400 Vermillion, SD: high school chimney - 700 Topeka, KS : brick chimney - 342 Shorewood, WI: school chimney - 45 Newport, MI: residential chimney - 58 Austin, TX: O. Henry Middle School - ~1000 Austin, TX: unused incinerator chimney - 503 Kingston, NS: residential chimney - 10 Johnson City, TX: 2 swift towers - 5 / 2 Austin, TX: residential chimney - 10 Unity, ME: residential chimney - 64 Howell, MI: large commercial chimney - +140 Bartlett, TN: Bartlett High School - 300 Weslaco, TX: residential chimney - 10 Pittsburg, KS: Westside Elem. School - 166 Jacksonville, FL: residential chimney - 4 Bastrop State Park, TX: concrete cistern - 600, 420 Gloucester, VA: warehouse chimney - 77 Racine, WI: St. Patrick’s chimney - ~100 Lebanon. MO: vacant house residential - 1500 / 2000 Saint-Raymond, Quebec: chimney - 76 Malheur Nat. Forest, OR: pine snag - 20 Vaux’s Lowell, MA: residential chimney - 150 Berea, OH: school chimney - 287 Wakulla Springs St. Park, FL: hotel chimney - +300 Galena, OH: church chimney - 1830 Saint-Jean-Baptiste, Manitoba - 2 / 3 Pittsburg, KS: multiple sites - 193 / 141 / 53 / 387 Mounds, OK: residential chimney - 16 Trois-Rivières , Québec: brick chimney - 21 Kenduskeag, ME: summer summary Portland, OR: residential chimney - ~20 Vaux’s Winston-Salem, NC: Sherwood Elem. School - ~500 Nashville, TN: Tusculum Elem. School - 275 Shorewood, WI: St. Robert’s Church - 1000 Median County, OH: elem. School - 135 Bastrop State Park, TX: concrete cistern - 280 Austin, TX: AFL-CIO bldg. - 425 Austin, TX: commercial brick chimney - 720 Travis County, TX: Chimney Swift Tower - +300 Johnson City, TX: Chimney Swift Tower - 19, 58, 19 Portsmouth, NH: residential chimney - +30 Pittsburg, KS: Westside elementary school - 300 First Methodist Church - 248 Columbia, MO: Benton Elementary School - 4630 Wileyville, VA: church chimney - 463 Holt, MO: Chimney Swift Tower - 31 Durham, NC: residential Chimney - 18 Chardon, OH: Park School Auditorium - 750 to 800 Nashville, TN: Tusculum Elementary School - 457 Carlisle, PA: residential chimney - 3 Vermillion, SD: high school chimney - 645 Athens, GA: commercial chimney - 290 Baltimore, MD: four-story urban chimney - 511 Corpus Christi, TX: residential chimney - 80 to 85 Topeka, KS: church chimney - +35 Montgomery County, TN: 50’ tall chimney - 160 Bryn Athyn, PA: school chimney - 450 to 500 Berea, OH: Little Red Schoolhouse - 441 Memphis, TN: church chimneys - 40 / 262 Baltimore, MD: com. chimney - 2300 / 3170 / 4630 Austin, TX: residential chimney - 23 school chimneys - 850 to 900 / 118 Racine, WI: 3-story commercial chimney - 37 / 4 Columbia, SC: auditorium chimney - +3000 Text Box: GUIDELINES Locate a Chimney Swift or Vaux’s Swift roost in your area. On one night over the weekend of August 13, 14, 15, and / or September 10, 11, 12 you observe the roost starting about 30 minutes before dusk and estimate the number of swifts that enter. When you have your number, contact us with your results. Please include the following: Number of swifts counted Time (and time zone) Date Location Address: city, state/province Broad description of the site, e.g. school, warehouse, residence, Chimney Swift Tower, etc. Weather conditions may also be reported. Email Us! We will continue to update the results through the end of September. Thank you for your support of Chimney Swift conservation. We look forward to hearing from you! Lexington, SC: intermediate school - 293 Galena, OH: church chimney - 1840 / 1690 Beecher, IL: Chimney Swift Tower - 6 / 4 Muskogee, OK: smokestack - 6500 chimney - +1000 Jonestown, TX: concrete cistern - ~2060 Baltimore, MD: armory chimney - 3200 Clearwater, FL: County courthouse - 54 Racine, WI: 53, 27, 4, 6, 239 Holland, MI: 2 to 500 Griegsville, NY: school chimney - 732/850 Athens, GA: 245 / 220 St. Petersburg/Gulfport, FL: 209 Atlanta, GA: 12 Baltimore, MD: Book Bindery - 7330 Greenbelt, MD: 180 / 88 Highland Village, TX: 11 Spartanburg, SC: 471 / 193 / 369 San Angelo, TX: ~200 Caledonia, MS: residential chimney - 9 Ridgewood, NJ: middle school - 250 / 600 Rome, MI: Church chimney - 140 Ashville, NC: 1500 / 2700 Kerrville, TX: 500 Sault Ste. Marie, ON: 11 Waycross, GA: 1000 / 1064 / 1220 Heavener, OK: 2400 Griegsville, NY: 1100 / 1300 / 1000 / 1100 Allentown, PA: 238 Elizabethtown, KY: 300 ~ 400 Spartanburg, SC: 471 / 193 / 369 Saint-Georges de Beauce, QC: 267
Text Box: For detailed information on each report CLICK HERE Text Box: Pre-event August 12 August 13 August 14 August 15-31 Text Box: September 1– 10 September 9 September 10 September 11 Post-event Text Box: Last Update: 10-10-2005

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