Chimney Swift,Chaetura pelagica.
March 24 to October 25. Abundant migrant and common summer resident. During the fall migration, hundreds
and even several thousand may be observed as they fly into chimneys for nighttime roosting. Over 1000,
for example, roosted in a single large chimney at a church on Dickson Street in Fayetteville in mid-October
of 1981 and an estimated 300 entered a Fayetteville chimney April 13, 1986. Over 1000 entered a chimney near
the Washington County Courthouse on April 24, 1988.
White-throated Swift,Aeronautes saxatalis.
A single bird was seen and described fully by several experienced observers as it flew near a high bluff
above the Buffalo River in Newton County on December 19, 1981.