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Chimney
Swift
Order: Apodiformes
Family: Apodidae
Genus:
Chaetura
Species:
pelagica
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Gr. a- not, without
Gr. pous genitive
Gr. podos a foot
La. forma form, kind, species
La. chaeta bristle, hair
Gr. oura tail
La. Pelasgi ancient nomadic Tribe |
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About 5 inches long with a 12 inch wingspan. Narrow tail. Sooty
grey-brown, paler underneath, grey on the throat, black wings.
Used to inhabit forests, now mostly in cities throughout the Great Plains
to Eastern U.S, and southern Canada. Migrates to northern South America.
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The Chimney Swift’s ancestors used to nest in forest tree hollows. Now they suspend their unlined basket like nests of twigs glued
together with saliva inside little or unused chimneys and many people
are having success attracting flocks to Chimney Swift Towers.
They snap thin dry twigs about an inch or two long for their nests
from dead branches while in full flight.
Lays 4 or 5 white eggs which hatch after about three weeks and young
fledge in about another four weeks.
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Edmund J. Sawyer
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Flocks of Chimney Swifts swoop gracefully like swallows overhead catching
flying insects in evenings or cloudy days emitting high pitched
twittering notes all the while. |
Chimney Swift Tower Plans
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