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Chimney Swift

Chaetura pelagica

Photo by AshleyT
Published on Project Noah
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Description:

They are olive above and gray-brown below. They have a distinctive body shape; they look like a torpedo with long, curved, and pointed wings. Although it looks all black in the photo, I identified it first with binoculars, just didn't come out so well in the photos. But it was a lifer for me!

Habitat:

Several were flying around at a chimney structure built specifically for Chimney Swifts at a nature preserve.

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