Learn facts you need to know about a swift bird. These airborne birds can’t sit still. Get facts about swift nests, range and migration.

The peregrine falcon is the fastest living thing on earth — when diving. We set out to find the bird that could win a gold medal in horizontal flight.

During the event, fittingly called “ Swift Night Out,” people observed a phenomenon of many birds swarming around the tree. Mason Miller A crowd gathers to watch the Chimney Swifts' flight on ...

Its chimney has been designated a swift sanctuary: The building's owner since 1974, Don S. White, took a liking to the birds and wanted to see their habitat protected, a goal now continued by his ...

The birds nest in small cracks in stone buildings, collecting scraps of grass and feathers blowing in the wind and gluing them together with their spittle. They remain faithful to their mates for ...

The Vaux's Swift is a tiny bird – some people call it “a cigar with wings.” But every fall these little birds make a big trip, from summer breeding grounds in the Pacific Northwest down to ...

This week’s future creature is a bird I’ve wanted to write about for years but never could get a great photo to use for a column.

The birds, which usually arrive in the UK from Africa in early May, spend almost all their lives in flight – eating, drinking, mating and sleeping on the wing.

Flight for survival. The Common Swift, with its dark, streamlined body and high-pitched beeping scream, is a familiar sight in summer skies for Europeans and Asians. These birds spend almost their ...

Birds of Ireland: Swift. ... In flight adult swifts appear all dark except for their pale throat which is visible only at close range. They have a short, forked tail, ...

The birds, which usually arrive in the UK from Africa in early May, spend almost all their lives in flight – eating, drinking, mating and sleeping on the wing.