I recently wrote about Swifts here, here and here.
They really are remarkable birds.
Small birds like swift and swallow species that migrate long distances have been predicted to travel over 300 miles per day but new evidence shows that one species of swift, our familiar (Common) Swift can cover far greater distances than that.
Susanne Åkesson and Giuseppe Bianco at Lund University in Sweden have shown that (Common) Swifts can fly an average of 355 miles per day with the fastest birds covering 515 miles in a day.
If I drive from my home in Essex to Aviemore in the Scottish Highlands, which I have only ever done once without an overnight stop, that is a distance of 538 miles. (Common) Swifts are capable of doing that non-stop in a day!
New Scientist - Common Swifts can fly more than 800 kilometres a day during migration
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