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The Northern Black Swift's Tropical Getaway

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Science Now

Publication Date
2012-03-15

Every fall, the northern black swift pulls a disappearing act. This gunmetal gray bird with a forked tail flies from its nesting sites near mountain waterfalls in western North America and vanishes for 7 to 8 months before returning to the same area.

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http://news.sciencemag.org/sciencenow/2012/03/the-northern-black-swifts-tropic.html?ref=hp