Join Carol Ann Fugagli to learn more about the long-term Cliff Swallow monitoring project, its results so far, and how to become a volunteer.

Community members have closely monitored Cliff Swallow nesting behavior for the past 10 years, yielding interesting insights into their nesting cycle. In even-numbered years, we conduct an intensive campus-wide survey to determine how many Cliff Swallow young fledge per nest. Over the long term, we can assess the importance of WNMU's buildings to these graceful flyers.

Each volunteer or team adopta\s a portion of a building on the WNMU campus. Volunteers visit their area once a week to determine the stage of each nest: building, incubating, feeding nestlings, or fledged, and record your findings on a data sheet. The goal is to determine how many nests reach the fledging stage by the end of the season. We will meet as a group twice each month to answer questions, share observations, and stories about the birds we have been watching.

Read more about the Cliff Swallow monitoring project on our Community Science page.