November 3, 2023 3:30 a.m.
The Umpqua Valley Audubon Society and Roseburg Public Library will have a Facebook Live streaming event, “Vaux’s Swifts: A West Coast Story” at 6:30 p.m. on Wednesday November 15th.
A City of Roseburg release said presenter Larry Schwitters will discuss the Vaux’s Happening project. It began in 2007 as a successful effort to save a school chimney that was one of only two well-known, big-number Vaux’s Swifts roost sites in Washington state. The project has documented more than 200 roosting sites from the Yukon to Guatemala that have sheltered swifts more than 23 million times in the past 32 migrations.
UVAS, which has hosted local swift watches seasonally since 2011, has been submitting data since the project began.
The presentation will feature images and information captured by the project’s surveillance cameras, precision temperature recorders and radio tracking transmitters.
A moderated question and answer session will follow the presentation. Questions may be submitted in advance to library staff at: library@cityofroseburg.org. Viewers that have a Facebook account may post questions during the event by commenting on the live steam.
More information about the Umpqua Valley Audubon Society and about Vaux’s Happening are available:
To view the event’s livestream, go to: https://www.facebook.com/roseburglibrary