November 14, 2023 10:30 a.m. 

The Umpqua Valley Audubon Society and Roseburg Public Library are hosting a Facebook Live streaming event Wednesday night.

“Vaux’s Swifts: A West Coast Story” will take place at 6:30 p.m. Presenter Larry Schwitters will discuss the Vaux’s Happening Project. It started 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.

Schwitters presentation will feature images and information captured by the project’s chimney surveillance cameras, precision temperature recorders and radio tracking transmitters.

A moderated question and answer session will follow the presentation. Questions may be submitted to library staff before the event at: library@cityofroseburg.org, or by calling 492-7051.

To view the live stream, go to: https://www.facebook.com/roseburglibrary