Wisconsin Swifts

This year, Madison's Swift Night Out on September 19 https://madisonaudubon.org/field-trips is planned in memory of Sandy Schwab, one of Wisconsin's biggest champions for chimney swift conservation. Sandy rehabbed swifts with Dane County Humane Society's Wildlife Center, she led the WI Chimney Swift Working Group, people passionate about securing the future for chimney swifts in Wisconsin, and she shared her love of swifts with everyone she met. Sandy passed away in June. This video by Christina Ciano shows Sandy in action at the wildlife center as she cared for and then released some swifts back into the wild.

Chimney Swifts Release After several weeks of intensive care, which consisted of feeding each bird 6 to 8 meal worms every half hour, Sandy, a Four Lakes Wildlife Center volunteer, is…

REQUEST FOR SWIFT TOWER INFO
Now that fall roosts are occurring or have finished, I'm asking one more time for the following information on chimney swift TOWERS (not actual chimneys, but towers built specifically for swifts). If you have one, please write to me and tell me:
1) location [can be a set of GPS coordinates, or a street intersection; the more precise, the better]
2) Did swifts nest in your tower? Was there a successful nest [fledged young, how many]?
3) Did a group of swifts [number, if you counted them] use your tower as an autumn roost site in August or September?
4) Did you use insulation in your design?
5) Did you use playback to attract the birds in spring?

Thanks for any help you can provide.

William P. Mueller

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Milwaukee, WI