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does anyone has Chimney Swift passage to read.

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The name chimney swift comes from favourite nesting habitat and the speed of its flight. The main diet of Chimney swift is flying insects. The appearance of Chimney swift is sooty grey, fairly small looks stubby between the long, narrow wings. Chimney swift flies like the bat, make clicking call. While flying the Chimney swifts gather nest material and drink water.

It like smoke, they spend most of their time flitting around in the air. They fly so often that their feet aren’t adapted to perch like other birds – instead, they’re perfect for clinging to the sides of vertical surfaces (like the chimney)..Chimney swifts didn’t always nest in chimneys, they evolved to nest in hollow trees (and some still do). In the breeding season, each nesting pair is territorial – there is only ever one nest per chimney. The breeding pair build the nest in a half-cup shape using twigs and their sticky saliva to glue it to the wall.

Baby swifts can be quite loud when they cry out for food, but this only lasts for a couple of weeks before they’re ready to leave the nest. And like all babies, they will leave a mess, One of the important facts is that one chimney swift family can eat an estimated 12,000 insects each day.

Chimney swift was maintained a monogamous - mate for life. Their eggs are white in colour Chimney swift are -half-saucer and cemented to a vertical surface, the twigs held together by the adults' glutinous saliva, which solidifies
and binds as it dries.

The average life span of a Chimney swift is 4 years. Chimney Swift winter location is the Amazon basin.