Iblis kecepatan (Speed Demons)
Common Swift
Apus apus
- tidak umum
- 111 km/h
- Risiko rendah
Sleeps, eats, and mates in flight. Doesn't land for up to 10 months. Committed courier.
- Populasi
- Very large global population, roughly estimated in the tens of millions of mature individuals; declining in parts of Europe though not enough to change the global category
- Habitat
- Aerial forager over open country, towns, and cities; nests in cavities in buildings (roof spaces, eaves, gables), on cliffs, and occasionally in tree holes — historically an old-forest cavity nester before adapting to human structures
- Fakta menarik
- Non-breeding Common Swifts can remain continuously airborne for up to ten months at a stretch, eating, drinking, and even sleeping on the wing, racking up a lifetime flight distance on the order of 4 million miles.
- Sebaran
- Breeds across Eurasia from Portugal and Ireland east to China and Siberia; migrates to winter in equatorial and sub-equatorial Africa
- Makanan
- Aerial insects and airborne spiders caught exclusively in flight ("aerial plankton")
- Ukuran
- 0,165 m
- Bentang sayap
- 0,39 m
- Masa hidup
- 5 tahun
