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Airmen from the 821st Contingency Response Group load a pallet onto a C-130J Super Hercules during Exercise Swift Response 16 at the Bydgoszcz Airport, Poland, June 8, 2016. Exercise SR16 is one of the premier military crisis response training events for multinational airborne forces in the world, the exercise has more than 5,000 participants from 10 NATO nations. Contingency Response units are self-sufficient and can deploy with all personnel, equipment and supplies to execute the mission. (U.S. Air Force photo by Master Sgt. Joseph Swafford/Released)
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The Common Swift (Apus apus) is a small bird, superficially similar to the barn swallow or house martin. It is, however, completely unrelated to those passerine species, since swifts are in the separate order Apodiformes. The resemblances between the groups are due to convergent evolution reflecting similar life styles.
The scientific name comes from the Greek απους, apous, meaning "without feet". These birds have very short legs which they use only for clinging to vertical surfaces (hence the German name Mauersegler, literally meaning "wall-glider"). They never settle voluntarily on the ground.
Like swallows, Common Swifts are migratory, and in midsummer they are found in Great Britain and northern Europe, while they winter much further south in southern Africa.
Swifts will occasionally live in forests, but they have adapted more commonly to human sites and will build their nests in all suitable hollows in buildings, under window sills, in the corner rafters of wooden buildings, in chimneys, and in smokestacks. A swift will return to the same nesting site year after year, rebuilding its nest when necessary.
Young swifts in the nest can drop their body temperature and become torpid if bad weather prevents their parents from catching insects nearby.
Swifts spend most of their lives in the air, living on the insects they catch in their beaks. They drink, feed, and often mate and sleep on the wing.
The common swift can reach 220km/hr in a dive!!!!
Handheld shot when flying over my back garden.
Driver: Jan van den Hoek
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Mabel Swift and her mother, Anna Payne, circa 1912. The photo was taken at the Prickett Farm at 4335 Hawkins Rd. in Richfield.
Location of photo: Black Clamshell Folder B
A U.S. Army 173rd Airborne Brigade paratrooper prepares to board a U.S. Air Force C-130J Hercules during exercise Swift Response 16, June 7, 2016 at Ramstein Air Base, Germany. Swift Response is a joint, multinational-exercise designed to train the U.S. Global Response Force alongside high-readiness forces from Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Spain and the United Kingdom. The 173rd Airborne Brigade (Sky Soldiers) is the U.S. Army's Contingency Response Force in Europe, providing rapid forces to the United States European, Africa and Central Commands areas of responsibilities. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. DeAndre Curtiss/Released)
An Italian Folgore Parachute Brigade paratrooper prepares for a static line jump in a U.S. Air Force C-130J Hercules during exercise Swift Response 16, June 7, 2016 at Ramstein Air Base, Germany. Swift Response is a joint, multinational-exercise designed to train the U.S. Global Response Force alongside high-readiness forces from Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Spain and the United Kingdom. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. DeAndre Curtiss/Released)
Driver: Jan van den Hoek
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U.S. Army 173rd Airborne Brigade paratroopers conduct a static line jump during exercise Swift Response 16, June 7, 2016 at Ramstein Air Base, Germany. Swift Response is a joint, multinational-exercise designed to train the U.S. Global Response Force alongside high-readiness forces from Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Spain and the United Kingdom. The 173rd Airborne Brigade (Sky Soldiers) is the U.S. Army's Contingency Response Force in Europe, providing rapid forces to the United States European, Africa and Central Commands areas of responsibilities. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. DeAndre Curtiss/Released)
These birds are called Vaux's Swifts. During their fall migration, when they come through Portland, they roost in the chimney of the Chapman Elementary School in the Northwest neighborhood. At sunset over a thousand of the birds come to the chimney to sleep for the night. The sky fills with the birds, then they start swirling around the chimney, and begin funnelling down into it. Like a tornado. They actually sleep on the walls of the chimney. Every night during the first few weeks of September, hundreds of people come out and bring blankets and a picnic dinner to watch the birds come in. This shot was taken on 9/23 during the last week of their stop in Portland.