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The Wake Audubon Society and the N.C. Museum of Natural Sciences have built a tower at the Prairie Ridge Ecostation in West Raleigh. Officials hope chimney swifts will roost here on their annual ...
Chimney Swifts rarely allow other birds — including other swifts — to use “their” tower while they are nesting; but in late summer, hundreds or even thousands of birds may roost in one ...
Construction of the tower took roughly 18 months, McNally said. Lois Simbach, the chimney swift tower artist, said she's been receiving compliments on the work, which will be unveiled to the ...
Earlier this week, members of Wake Audubon and the NC Museum of Natural Sciences did the ground work on the acre of land surrounding the 30-foot tall chimney swift roost tower at the Prairie Ridge ...
Pioneer ornithologist Althea Sherman's 98-year-old chimney swift observation tower got wired for the 21st century Thursday. Two video cameras and a microphone, installed by raptor expert Bob ...
R. Whitfield School. After receiving a grant from the Wildlife Rehabilitators of North Carolina, Dr. Adam Philipps and Madison Clements built a Chimney Swift Tower. “We started building this ...
BLOOMINGTON, Ind. (AP) - A newly erected tower in Bloomington will begin doubling next spring as a roosting spot for hundreds of chimney swifts. The 12-foot-tall tower paid for by Indiana ...