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Baby chimney swifts are altricial—naked, blind and helpless when they hatch. Fledglings leave the nest after a month. [57] The average chimney swift's life span is 4.6 years, [60] but one is known to have lived more than 14 years. It was originally banded as an adult, and was recaptured in another banding operation some 12.5 years later. [61]
Althea Rosina Sherman (1853 – 1943) was an American illustrator, educator, self-taught ornithologist, and writer who commissioned the building of the "Chimney Swifts' Tower" in Clayton County, Iowa. This structure enabled her to observe and report on the life cycle of chimney swifts, the first to complete such investigations. She published ...
Chimney swifts live most of their life on the wing, nesting and roosting in caves and old-growth tree cavities prior to the 1600s across much of the United States. But as European settlers arrived ...
Pale-rumped swift (Chaetura egregia) Chimney swift (Chaetura pelagica) Vaux's swift (Chaetura vauxi) Chapman's swift (Chaetura chapmani) Ashy-tailed swift (Chaetura andrei) Sick's swift (Chaetura meridionalis) Short-tailed swift (Chaetura brachyura) Tribe Apodini - typical swifts Genus Aeronautes; White-throated swift (Aeronautes saxatalis)
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Common Swift chicks . The common swift (Apus apus) is a medium-sized bird, superficially similar to the barn swallow or house martin but somewhat larger, though not stemming from those passerine species, being in the order Apodiformes. The resemblances between the groups are due to convergent evolution, reflecting similar contextual development.
The swifts are small birds which spend the majority of their lives flying. These birds have very short legs and never settle voluntarily on the ground, perching instead only on vertical surfaces. Many swifts have long swept-back wings which resemble a crescent or boomerang. One species has been recorded in New York. Chimney swift, Chaetura ...
Sick's swift (Chaetura meridionalis) is a species of swift in the family Apodidae. It was previously considered conspecific with the smaller ashy-tailed swift, but a study published in 1997 found that Sick's swift was closer to the chimney swift. The English name commemorates the German-born ornithologist Helmut Sick who studied South American ...