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For years, before I had my stoep enclosed with a roof, swallows, swifts and European starlings nested under the eaves.
The hobby is one of the very few birds of prey capable of outflying swifts, perhaps at a speed approaching 100 mph.
Every evening, with patience, you will glimpse chimney swifts dropping into and launching out of one of our chimneys.
Like other birds that spend most of their lives in the air, chimney swifts have high-speed, energy-efficient wings.
Basically nondescript, it is easy to understand why chimney swifts are likened to flying cigars.
Alpine swifts circled rapidly overhead while Blue couas and Cuckoo rollers were seen in the trees.
Cypseloidine swifts build nests with moss and lichen on ledges near or behind waterfalls and will sometimes re-use nests.
For the first time this year there were lots of swifts hawking the riverside fields.
In July evening flights of swifts wheeling high over our garden are a regular feature.
Dozens of swifts wheel in and out through a 2-foot square hole high in the wall.
However I did log a woodchat shrike, numerous barn and red-rumped swallows, a veritable swarm of common swifts, and a common buzzard.
You may also find cuckoos, kingbirds, flycatchers, swifts, swallows, orioles, and tanagers in the fall.
These swifts are not migratory, although they will make local nomadic trips or shift seasonally.
The swifts are wild, daring, and free, unfettered by cables, canvas, or clocks.
Swallows, swifts and nighthawks, all pursuing flying insects, fly erratically.
Look for a tall shaft, chimney or similar structure to locate where chimney swifts go to roost in your area.
Properly maintaining a chimney or fireplace inhabited by chimney swifts eliminates any risk of disease.
Before Europeans arrived in North America, chimney swifts nested in the old giant hollow trees of the forest.
As their name implies, chimney swifts adapted to man's presence and commonly nest on the inside walls of chimneys.
Every fall thousands of migrating chimney swifts funnel into the chimneys at the Bookbinder and Mill Center in Hampden at dusk.
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Examples from Classical Literature
Evidently the swifts mistook the buzzard's shadow for that of the sharp-shinned hawk.
Also spotted were herons, bulbuls, parakeets, doves, sparrows, swifts and partridges, among other species.
Evidence for convergent evolution in gape morphology of the Bat Hawk with swifts, swallows, and goatsuckers.
For comparison purposes, similar data are presented for three additional swifts, the Lesser Swallow-tailed Swift, Neotropical Palm-Swift, and Short-tailed Swift.
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