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Swift (bird), the Glossary

The swifts are a family, Apodidae, of highly aerial birds.^[1]

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Apodidae
Swifts
Taxa named by Ernst Hartert

Aerodramus

Aerodramus is a genus of small, dark, cave-nesting birds in the Collocaliini tribe of the swift family. Swift (bird) and Aerodramus are Apodidae.

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Animal echolocation

Echolocation, also called bio sonar, is a biological active sonar used by several animal groups, both in the air and underwater.

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Aphrodisiac

An aphrodisiac is a substance alleged to increase libido, sexual desire, sexual attraction, sexual pleasure, or sexual behavior.

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The Apodiformes is an order, or taxonomic grouping, of birds which traditionally contained three living families—the '''Apodidae''' (swifts), the '''Hemiprocnidae''' (treeswifts), and the '''Trochilidae''' (hummingbirds); however, in the Sibley-Ahlquist taxonomy, this order is elevated to the superorder Apodimorphae, in which hummingbirds are separated into a new order, the Trochiliformes.

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Apodinae

The Apodinae are a subfamily of swifts and contain the following species: Tribe Collocaliini - swiftlets. Swift (bird) and Apodinae are Apodidae.

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Atiu swiftlet

The Atiu swiftlet or Sawtell's Swiftlet (Aerodramus sawtelli) is a species of bird in the swift family, endemic to Atiu in the Cook Islands.

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Bird

Birds are a group of warm-blooded vertebrates constituting the class Aves, characterised by feathers, toothless beaked jaws, the laying of hard-shelled eggs, a high metabolic rate, a four-chambered heart, and a strong yet lightweight skeleton.

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Bird migration

Bird migration is a seasonal movement of birds between breeding and wintering grounds that occurs twice a year.

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BirdLife International

BirdLife International is a global partnership of non-governmental organizations that strives to conserve birds and their habitats.

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Black-nest swiftlet

The black-nest swiftlet (Aerodramus maximus) is a species of swift in the family Apodidae.

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Boomerang

A boomerang is a thrown tool typically constructed with airfoil sections and designed to spin about an axis perpendicular to the direction of its flight.

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Chimney swift

The chimney swift (Chaetura pelagica) is a bird belonging to the swift family Apodidae.

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Common swift

The common swift (Apus apus) is a medium-sized bird, superficially similar to the barn swallow or house martin but somewhat larger, though not stemming from those passerine species, being in the order Apodiformes. Swift (bird) and common swift are swifts.

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Convergent evolution

Convergent evolution is the independent evolution of similar features in species of different periods or epochs in time.

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Cypseloidinae

The Cypseloidinae are a subfamily of swifts and contain the following species. Swift (bird) and Cypseloidinae are Apodidae.

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Dark-rumped swift

The dark-rumped swift (Apus acuticauda) is a species of swift in the family Apodidae.

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Edible bird's nest

Edible bird's nests, also known as swallow nests (p), are bird nests created from solidified saliva by edible-nest swiftlets, Indian swiftlets and other swiftlets of the genera Aerodramus, Hydrochous, Schoutedenapus and Collocalia, which are harvested for human consumption. Swift (bird) and edible bird's nest are Apodidae.

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Edible-nest swiftlet

The edible-nest swiftlet (Aerodramus fuciphagus), also known as the white-nest swiftlet, is a small bird of the swift family which is found in Southeast Asia.

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Endangered species

An endangered species is a species that is very likely to become extinct in the near future, either worldwide or in a particular political jurisdiction.

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Eocene

The Eocene is a geological epoch that lasted from about 56 to 33.9 million years ago (Ma).

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Ernst Hartert

Ernst Johann Otto Hartert (29 October 1859 – 11 November 1933) was a widely published German ornithologist.

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Eurotrochilus

Eurotrochilus is an extinct genus of stem group hummingbirds (Trochilidae) and are the closest known relatives of the crown group Trochilidae.

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Greek language

Greek (Elliniká,; Hellēnikḗ) is an independent branch of the Indo-European family of languages, native to Greece, Cyprus, Italy (in Calabria and Salento), southern Albania, and other regions of the Balkans, the Black Sea coast, Asia Minor, and the Eastern Mediterranean.

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Greenwood Publishing Group

Greenwood Publishing Group, Inc. (GPG), also known as ABC-Clio/Greenwood (stylized ABC-CLIO/Greenwood), is an educational and academic publisher (middle school through university level) which is today part of ABC-Clio.

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Hummingbird

Hummingbirds are birds native to the Americas and comprise the biological family Trochilidae.

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Insect

Insects (from Latin insectum) are hexapod invertebrates of the class Insecta.

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International Swift Conference

International Swift Conferences are biennial meetings of ornithologists that focus on birds of the swift family. Swift (bird) and International Swift Conference are swifts.

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List of Apodiformes by population

This is a list of Apodiformes species by global population.

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List of birds by flight speed

This is a list of the fastest flying birds in the world.

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Mariana swiftlet

The Mariana swiftlet or Guam swiftlet (Aerodramus bartschi) is a species of swiftlet in the family Apodidae.

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Martlet

A martlet in English heraldry is a mythical bird without feet that never roosts from the moment of its drop-birth until its death fall; martlets are proposed to be continuously on the wing.

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Metre per second

The metre per second is the unit of both speed (a scalar quantity) and velocity (a vector quantity, which has direction and magnitude) in the International System of Units (SI), equal to the speed of a body covering a distance of one metre in a time of one second.

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Miocene

The Miocene is the first geological epoch of the Neogene Period and extends from about (Ma).

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Morphology (biology)

Morphology in biology is the study of the form and structure of organisms and their specific structural features.

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Near-threatened species

A near-threatened species is a species which has been categorized as "Near Threatened" (NT) by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) as that may be vulnerable to endangerment in the near future, but it does not currently qualify for the threatened status.

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Nucleic acid sequence

A nucleic acid sequence is a succession of bases within the nucleotides forming alleles within a DNA (using GACT) or RNA (GACU) molecule.

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Oligocene

The Oligocene is a geologic epoch of the Paleogene Period and extends from about 33.9 million to 23 million years before the present (to). As with other older geologic periods, the rock beds that define the epoch are well identified but the exact dates of the start and end of the epoch are slightly uncertain.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swift_(bird)

Also known as Apodid, Apodidae.

, Torpor, Treeswift, Vulnerable species, White-throated needletail.

Swift (bird), the Glossary

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See also

Apodidae

Swifts

Taxa named by Ernst Hartert

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