The Bird Alliance of Oregon’s Wildlife Care Center was vandalized just after midnight on Thursday, the conservation ...

Just after midnight on Thursday, July 31, the Bird Alliance of Oregon's Wildlife Care Center was broken into and vandalized.

An intruder released several birds from Bird Alliance of Oregon's Wildlife Care Center in Northwest Portland. Surveillance ...

A suspect is wanted after breaking into the Bird Alliance of Oregon’s Wildlife Care Center and releasing some of the birds ...

The layoffs weren’t linked to the Bird Alliance’s efforts to buy property in outer Northeast Portland, Wells said, because the capital campaign for a new rehabilitation center and the ...

The director of Multnomah County’s Preschool for All program has resigned amid a controversy.

Bird Alliance of Oregon staff visit the site of a planned wildlife hospital and nature sanctuary at 2800 N.E. 82nd. Ave, Portland, Ore., in this provided photo.

(That night Bird Alliance of Oregon counted 1,500 people there.) About an hour before sunset, the birds begin to gather in the sky, and the crowd gasps and claps as the formation swirls around.

The Portland swift count tends to peak in mid-September – this year, the first birds were counted August 26th, and the most birds were counted September 2nd (over 5,000).