Swift

Name: Swift

Scientific name: Apus apus

Category: Birds

Nature Stars: 30

What are nature stars?

About: A fast flying, streamlined bird with long curved wings and a short, forked tail. About 18cm long with a wingspan of about 40cm. Nests in holes in roofs, particularly common in older parts of towns and cities. Swifts feed on flying insects. They arrive in

How to identify: Larger than swallows and martins, all dark with a small pale patch on the throat.

Where: A common and widespread summer visitor.

Natural Superpowers

• Predator: 80
• Agility: 90
• Rarity: 40
• Cute factor: 40
• Traveller: 90

Fantastic fact: Swifts spend almost their entire life on the wing, even sleeping and mating whilst flying, only landing to nest.

Photograph credit: Photo credit tbc