#common swift

[mushbeast]

common swift

[emaadsidiki]

What an Eiffel!

[critter-creature-or-beast]

trick or treat !!!

Perhaps a prince of the skies would like an animal that spends a lot of time in the skies: a common swift, the record holder for longest uninterrupted flight-- 10 months!

[haveyouseenthisbirdpoll]

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[koenji]

Common Swift (Apus apus) is too precious.

[etchif]

[bitsandbirds]

I was so excited when I saw that I had finally managed to get a swift pic that wasn't a silhouette! It is really satisfying to get good shots of the aerial summer birds because of how hard it is to catch them in a clean shot like this.

Common Swift (Apus apus), Ireland

[proton-wobbler]

Great Backyard Bird Off - Cosmopolitan Birds (poll 5)

Bird Info & Submission Reasons

Common Swift (Apus apus)

Continents: Africa, Asia, Europe

"Swallows are really neat but swifts are so cool and fast and brilliant. Their colour is beautiful. They are not passeriformes, which is also cool, and their feet are SO WEIRD"

"I love swifts, we got them in the street I grew up in every summer. The swifts' arrival means the beginning of summer to me, and when they leave, almost mysteriously, it's the end. We had a nest in the eaves just above our bathroom window, and swifts would return to it every year. I can't go back to where I grew up easily any more, and the sound and sight of swifts overhead always feels like the glimpse of a hug from home. One of my favourite things in the world is a sky full of gathering grey clouds and screaming, wheeling swifts ahead of a breaking summer storm. Submitting from the UK."

"they're sooo fast. so fast. and i love their little cacophonies"

"They don’t exactly live in your back garden but they’re a bird you often see zipping along through the air. In the Netherlands, seeing the first ones of the year really reminds you that spring and summer are coming. There’s a saying that when you see this birds flying low, it’s going to start raining hard very soon and they’ve never let me down. Also, these birds are hardcore. Unless they’re chicks or taking care of their own young, they’re flying around 99% of the time. They sleep in the air, they have sex in the air, they spend the first 3 years of their life never landing— until the time comes to raise their young. Isn’t that cool!!!"

Red-backed shrike (Lanius collurio)

Continents: Europe, Africa, Asia

"Woke up at 5 to see them. Worth it. Beautiful birds"

Handsome small shrike. Male distinctive, with blue-gray head, black mask, rusty-brown back; female has warm brown upperparts, fine dark scalloping on breast and flanks. Found in open areas with scattered bushes and trees, such as heathland, overgrown orchards, and open farmland with hedges and scattered bushes; especially favors areas with thorny plants on which prey (small birds, large insects, rodents) can be impaled in "larders." Hunts from perches atop bushes and on wires, but at other times is retiring and easily overlooked. Listen for harsh, rough-sounding calls. Song is a rather quiet warble, often with mimicked elements. (eBird)

Image Sources: Swift (Anonymous); Shrike (Ana Amaral)

[blogbirdfeather]

Common Swift - Andorinhão-preto (Apus apus)

Vila Franca de Xira/Portugal (12/07/2024)

[Nikon D500; AF-S Nikkor 500mm F5,6E PF ED VR; 1/2500s; F5,6; 500 ISO]

[on-a-twig]

Common swift

[ardate]

Son boy allowed... For one day

[fishpiecoat]

swift that we found on the ground (and did our best to help it fly back up)

[narwa]

[nuclearbedbug]

Bird of the day!!

Today is the common swift!

A beautiful bird with a unique flying pattern, these birds can be found from as far up as Norway and as South as north Africa with a presence in the middle East too!

I'm used to growing up with their song being heard late into the summer night, since they come back up north during the summers. And their song consists of a simple and kinda annoying "srrriii" which they scream while flying with other swifts:)

And a fun fact about swifts is that they almost never land, and spend most of their time up in the air! Eating, sleeping, bathing and mating can all be done up in the air with an exception for nests and laying eggs.

Srrii

[nature-nerd-sarah]

Posting birds until I hit post limit: Common swift

[summer-of-autumn]

Собственно стриж и подоконник после сеанса кормления)

Приобрела сегодня зоофобаса (личинок) и сверчков для него.

Зоофобас это скорее добавка к рациону, со сверчками несколько трудней: я отсоединяю двумя пинцетами конечности и головы, скармливая стрижу мягкие тельца (а потом собираю по столу вылетевшие кишки хахахахах).

[Но сразу после успешного разделывания сверчков я столкнулась с фактом совершенного неумения своего раскрывать консервные банки.]