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Swifts aren t called swifts for nothing. They re known for being among the fastest migrating small birds around. When they aren t breeding, common swifts stay in the air most of the time up to 10 months of the year. Scientists had thought they travel about 500 kilometers per day on average. Now, new evidence reported in the journal
iScience on May 20 shows that s a conservative estimate.
According to new tracking data, common swifts travel 570 kilometers (more than 350 miles) on an average day but they are capable of going much farther and faster. The maximum recorded distance in the study was more than 830 kilometers (more than 500 miles) per day over nine days.
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How Far Does Wildlife Roam? Ask the âInternet of Animalsâ
Planet An ambitious new system will track scores of species from space â shedding light, scientists hope, on the lingering mysteries of animal movement. By Sonia Shah
Shyama Golden ââIâm going to do a set of coos,â Calandra Stanley whispered into the radio. The Georgetown ornithologist and her team had been hunting cuckoos, in an oak-and-hickory forest on the edge of a Southern Illinois cornfield, for weeks. Droplets of yesterdayâs rain slid off the leaves above to those below in a steady drip. In the distance, bullfrogs croaked from a shallow lake, where locals go ice fishing in winter.