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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]
Swifts are among the fastest of birds in level flight, and larger species like the white-throated needletail have been reported travelling at up to 169 km/h (105 mph). [7] Even the common swift can cruise at a maximum speed of 31 metres per second (112 km/h; 70 mph).
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)
Roughly 70 to 80 types of swifts live worldwide, but only the chimney swift is native east of the Rocky Mountains. The birds head north in March , nesting in April and May to lay four to five eggs.
Range map for the Chimney Swift (Chaetura pelagica) Date: 10 July 2012, 13:37 (UTC) Source: This file was derived from: America Federal Provincial y Departamental.PNG. Range information derived from multiple sources provided by requester Doctree (talk) 00:24, 11 July 2012 (UTC) including but not limited to: USGS Breeding Bird Survey from web ...
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 very long, swept-back wings which resemble a crescent or boomerang. Chimney swift, Chaetura pelagica
The greater roadrunner is the state bird of New Mexico. This list of birds of New Mexico are the species documented in the U.S. state of New Mexico and accepted by the New Mexico Bird Records Committee (NMBRC). As of August 2022, 552 species were included in the official list. Of them, 176 are on the review list (see below), five species have been introduced to North America, and three have ...
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