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According to bird experts Kenn and Kimberly Kaufman, much about bird flying is dependent on the species, season, and what else the bird is doing. Songbirds that feed on insects vary in the elevation ...

SAN LUIS VALLEY, ALAMOSA COUNTY — The sun was not up yet, but Rob Sparks and Colin Woolley were changing into their waders and rubber boots before heading on a short hike on a recent summer morning.

Squadrons of small sooty-brown, sickle-winged birds called chimney swifts zip through the air in rapid twists and turns while gobbling up flying insects. Their 5-inch-long bodies taper at both ends, ...

Swifts, small and unremarkable-looking, stay aloft almost their entire lives, flying great distances at up to 70 miles an hour. Anderson starts this survey of “the champions of the bird world” in ...

The tiny Vaux’s swifts, birds that put on a magnificent aerial display in Portland every September, arrived early this year. They’re already numbering in the thousands, when they’d usually only be in ...