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Common swift

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Common swift
Alexis Lours / CC BY 4.0 · resizedfile
Air, powered flight. In rapid group flights called screaming parties, researchers used cameras to track common swifts. They recorded a horizontal speed of 70 mph (112 km/h) in the fastest pass. The short, fast flights were considerably quicker than the birds’ usual migration pace.
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