Portland Swifts 2025. Allow extra time to park or take public transit and walk to the school. The migrating vaux’s swifts, which normally roost by the thousands in the old chimney at portland’s chapman elementary school throughout september, have abandoned the site early this year.

We’re not talking about taylor swift, but the vaux’s swift. Every september, spectators gather to see the world’s largest roost of vaux’s swifts swarm and spiral into the chimney of a northwest portland school.