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- Title
What Are You Going to See With a Nature Camera at a Downtown Library? The Chimney Swift Tower at the Ina Thompson Moss Point Library.
- Authors
Elston, Jamie
- Abstract
In May of 2011, a group of teen volunteers participating in the VISIONS Adventure Program, with help from the Pascagoula River Audubon Center, built a chimney swift tower on the grounds of the Ina Thompson Moss Point Library (Moss Point Library). The tower, with two video cameras mounted inside it and a video monitor inside the library was completed in July of 2011. A pair of birds began roosting and nesting in the structure in May 2012. Two eggs produced hatchlings in early July 2012. By the end of the breeding season, at least one of the hatchlings had fledged, and was seen roosting with two adults nearby. The Moss Point Library, part of the Jackson-George Regional Library System headquartered in Pascagoula, Mississippi, may be the first library to host a chimney swift tower with a nature camera and the ability to record the video.
- Subjects
MISSISSIPPI; NATURE films; CHIMNEY swift; PUBLIC libraries; TELEVISION in security systems; VIDEO recording
- Publication
Mississippi Libraries, 2013, Vol 76, Issue 2, p11
- ISSN
0194-388X
- Publication type
Article