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Chimney swift   /tʃˈɪmni swɪft/   Listen
Chimney swift

noun
1.
American swift that nests in e.g. unused chimneys.  Synonyms: Chateura pelagica, chimney swallow.





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"Chimney swift" Quotes from Famous Books



... The chimney swift loves his chimney, too. Let us hope that when he returns early in May he will not find ...
— Friends and Helpers • Sarah J. Eddy
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... admired are those creatures which have so changed their habits that some product of man's invention serves them as well as did their former wilderness home. The eave swallow and barn swallow and the chimney swift all belie their names in the few wild haunts still uninvaded by man. The first two were originally cliff and bank haunters, and the latter's home was a ...
— The Log of the Sun - A Chronicle of Nature's Year • William Beebe
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