Safe Harbor for Chimney Swifts.

But in recent decades, "many chimneys have been removed or capped", says Paul Kyle of the Chimney Swift Conservation Association (CSCA), "and the interiors of new chimneys are almost exclusively stainless steel, unsuited to the swifts' needs". Lin and Andrew Weber of Wimberley, Texas, built a tower in 2010, and "swifts moved in within weeks", says Lin. In some places, watch parties called A Swift Night Out are held at dusk during August and September to view the avian funnel clouds plummet into chimneys. [Extracted from the article]

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