Ahmed wrote:In a more modest format, but with a clear disproportion (compared to other birds) of the wing surface, the swifts must also take precautions for takeoff, always delicate in this configuration, ideal for the only flight.
+1; Even, I lived in an old house where many swifts nested in the roof. Regularly they fell into the attic after making the wrong entry for their nest. They quickly exhausted themselves trying to take off from the floor and trying to escape through the closed skylight. So, I regularly went to inspect the attic to catch them and release them through the upstairs window. At least 3 or 4 per year have escaped the worst.
They are really beautiful critters, as beautiful in the hand as when it flies .... They have bristles that rise as if they had been made eyes