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swifts

  • plural
    of swift.
    swift
    adjective
    moving or capable of moving with great speed or velocity; fleet; rapid.

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Several other college buildings also have boxes and at the North-West Cambridge development at Eddington, more than 200 bird boxes have been installed and a number of those are for swifts.

From BBC ● Jun. 30, 2026

Others have raised environmental concerns over colonies of common swifts nesting in the park.

From Barron's ● Jun. 26, 2026

Downtown's Pershing Square supports mourning doves, Vaux's swifts, gopher snakes and exotic streaktails, a type of fly that feeds on aphids.

From Science Daily ● May 29, 2024

Some of the houses include solar slate roofs and built-in bird boxes to attract swifts.

From Washington Post ● May 2, 2023

Telkies, swifts, nymphs, greenys, stone- skins—all of them terrible to watch.

From "Red Queen" by Victoria Aveyard