Chimney swifts, which migrate through northern New Jersey by the thousands each September, have fallen on tough times as more and more large chimneys fall into disuse. These small, insect-devouring ...

MONROE — Our favorite bird is back in town. Thousands of migrating Vaux’s swifts are visiting the old chimney of the Wagner Performing Arts Center this month. At dusk, the small birds swirl into the ...

Sometimes on summer evenings, Marion Miller likes to sit in her lawn chair and enjoy the air show happening overhead. With soft and rapid twittering, small smudge-gray birds known as chimney swifts ...