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The Ten-Month Marathon: Meet the Bird That Lives Its Whole Life in the Clouds
Of all the marvels of the natural world, few are as astonishing as the common swift (Apus apus). These small birds spend ...
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Living in clouds: Meet the bird that eats, sleeps and lives almost entirely in the sky for 10 months
A remarkable bird spends up to 10 months airborne, eating, sleeping, and even resting mid-flight, pushing biological limits ...
The Estonian Ornithological Society has chosen the common swift as its bird of the year for 2026. The common swift is a bird that spends a significant part of its life in flight: it catches insects, ...
Swifts aren't called "swifts" for nothing. They're known for being among the fastest migrating small birds around. When they aren't breeding, common swifts stay in the air most of the time--up to 10 ...
Compared with other migratory birds, the common swift follows a very unusual pattern when it migrates from the breeding areas in Europe to its wintering locations south of the Sahara. This is what ...
Small birds like swifts and swallows that migrate long distances have been predicted to travel up to 500 kilometres per day, but new evidence shows that one species of swift can cover far more ground ...
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