Common swift
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common-swift-174-18188912
title:
Common swift
text:
The common swift is a medium-sized bird, superficially similar to the barn swallow or house martin but somewhat larger, though not stemming from those passerine species, being in the order Apodiformes. The resemblances between the groups are due to convergent evolution, reflecting similar contextual development. The swifts' nearest relatives are the New World hummingbirds and the Southeast Asian treeswifts. Its scientific name Apus is Latin for a swift, thought by the ancients to be a type of sw
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wiki
category slug:
encyclopedia
description:
Species of bird
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_swift
date created:
2002-07-31T04:19:03Z
date modified:
2024-09-02T22:45:13Z
main entity:
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image:
{"content_url":"https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/be/Apus_apus_-Barcelona%2C_Spain-8_%281%29.jpg","width":1280,"height":855}
fields total:
13
integrity:
16