>Hi Tweeters,
>
>Dennis, has there been any corresponding decrease in Cascadia of Vaux's
>Swifts (which in my mind are beer to the nighthawks' skittles)?
>
>Michael Price

If I may answer for all the Tweeters, "Hi Michael!"

Breeding Bird Survey data indicate a decreasing trend in the Northwest in
the past 25 years, although no trend was indicated in the second half of
that period. I still see Vaux's Swifts just about everywhere I go where
they used to be present, so this decrease hasn't been very evident to me
personally. I have them over my house in Seattle just about every day, and
clearly they have been able to adapt to chimney life, albeit more recently
than Chimney Swifts. Still, I don't see this as a species of *great*
concern at present.

Any other anecdotes, impressions, or data out there?

Dennis Paulson, Director phone: (206) 756-3798
Slater Museum of Natural History fax: (206) 756-3352
University of Puget Sound e-mail: dpaulson at ups.edu
Tacoma, WA 98416