They do what in flight?!
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They eat, sleep and even mate in flight!

Want to know more about #chimneyswifts – these “cigar-shaped” birds with boomerang wings?

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Title page: Nova Scotia Wildlife Spotlight. Species at risk. Five coloured circles from left to right: Yellow is for endangered, orange is for threatened, pink is for vulnerable, violet is for extirpated, navy blue is for extinct. Image of the sky looking through trees from below. A weekly post spotlighting a different species currently at risk in Nova Scotia. #NSWildlifeSpotlight. Logo: Museum of Natural History a part of the NSM.

#ChimneySwifts are ENDANGERED #SpeciesAtRisk in NS.
These birds tend to nest in urban chimneys, hence the name. Chimney Swift have brown–grey feathers with a distinguished pointed body, long narrow wings, and short tail. Their flight is described as rapid and jerky.
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Swifts Night Out #chimneyswifts

Tipping Point Species Immediate Conservation Needed for Birds That Have Experienced the Steepest Population Losses Tipping Point bird species have lost more than 50% of their populations within the past 50 years. The Ro...

State of the Birds 2025

This year the #ChimneySwift is an #OrangeAlert #TippingPoint species which includes 37 species.

Immediate #conservation is needed for birds that have experienced the steepest population losses.

#ChimneySwifts

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Peregrine falcon perched on a church spire gable. She's looking up and over her shoulder at the Chimney Swifts (not pictured) that are flying above the spire

Cute!

Here's one of birder watching #Peregrine watching #ChimneySwifts

Chimney Swift bird. (Source: cynoclub/iStock via Getty Images Plus)

Chimney swifts have been nesting in the tall brick chimney of the former high school on Talbot Street West in Leamington, Ont., on Wednesday, July 9, 2025. (Chris Campbell/CTV News Windsor)

A bitter pill’: #Leamington council moves ahead with $640K chimney swift habitat, but questions priorities

#Ontario #Canada 🇨🇦 #ONpoli #Cdnpoli #ChimneySwifts #Birds #AnimalWelfare #AnimalLaw #EndangeredSpecies #Federal #Provincial #AnimalRights #Wildlife

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A big thank you to Gabriel Evans-Cook at Birds Canada for giving a presentation on Chimney swifts at our first Swift Watch night in 2025!
#chimneyswifts
#swiftwatch
#windsorbirds
#birdfriendlywindsor
#PIBO
#arielinsectivores

2 little birds may delay opening of Acadia University's new nursing building | CBC News Chimney swifts, a species at risk, were spotted at the building that will be demolished to make way for the new facility.

2 little birds may delay opening of Acadia University's new nursing building

Chimney swifts, a species at risk, were spotted at the building that will be demolished
#ChimneySwifts #SpeciesAtRisk #Wolfville #NovaScotia

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Chimney swift freehand embroidered by Artist LK Glickman, with sunset colours painted in the background

Chimney swift freehand embroidered by Artist LK Glickman, with sunset colours painted in the background

Chimney swift freehand embroidered by Artist LK Glickman, with sunset colours painted in the background

Three Chimney swifts freehand embroidered by Artist LK Glickman, with sunset colours painted in the background

Here’s some close-ups of my painting of Lisa Mintz urban nature advocate. Director of #urbannatureeducation in #Montreal. She really loves #ChimneySwifts so these were included (threatened species). Entirely #embroidered freehand. They are each about 6 inches.

A painting with embroidered birds on the embroidered hair of urban nature, Lisa Mintz, who helped to protect falaise St Jacques in Montreal

Alana Westwood Forest researcher and professor at to Dalhousie university pictured with an olive sided flycatcher

Author Catherine Bush of the climate themed “ blaze Island” pictured with a wolf & a great grey owl on silver leaf

Founder of Council for Canadians water protection non profit director and author Maude barlow pictured with loons and water lilies on a lake at sunset

For #artyear & #februARTy, #birds this past year, series entitled #voicesforthewild. Here are: #mixedmedia #upcycledtextiles #chimneyswifts in #embroidery #urbannature Lisa Mintz, #dalhousie #forestresearcher Alana Westwood #olivesidedflycatcher #councilforcanadians #maudebarlow #catherinebush