Nghĩa của từ swifts bằng Tiếng Anh

noun
1
a swift-flying insectivorous bird with long slender wings and a superficial resemblance to a swallow, spending most of its life on the wing.
The White-throated Swift is a large, slender swift with long wings and a narrow tail, usually held closed into a point.
2
a moth, typically yellow-brown in color, with fast darting flight. The eggs are scattered in flight and the larvae live underground feeding on roots, where they can be a serious pest.
3
a light, adjustable reel for holding a skein of silk or wool.
Illustrated in the book are other articles made in the Dominy shop for family use, such as a wooden bowl made of a burl from an apple tree and a swift to wind wool yarn.

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1. Feeding habits Chimney Swifts feed on insects and spiders, taken almost exclusively in the air (Chantler 1999).

2. Beating the wings slightly out of phase enables swifts to make sharp turns without a reduction in speed.

3. Apus Common swifts (Apus Apus) Scientific classification Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Aves Order: Apodiformes Family: Apodidae Subfamily: Apodinae Tribe: Apodini Genus: Apus Scopoli, 1777 Species See text The bird genus Apus comprise some of the Old World members of the family Apodidae, commonly known as swifts

4. The Swifts keeper, Patterson, saved well from Woods, who later missed a good opportunity to put the Olympic ahead.

5. Adhamant definition is - clinging as if by hooks —used especially of the feet of certain birds (as the swifts).

6. Like the unrelated swifts and nightjars, which hunt in a similar way, they have short bills, but strong jaws and a wide gape.

7. To find out how they do it, ornithologists Johan Bäckman and Thomas Alerstam of Sweden’s Lund University used radar to track the swifts’ nocturnal movements.

8. Tiny sensors attached to three alpine swifts at their breeding site have shown that the birds flew nonstop for more than 200 days while migrating to Africa.

9. In the evenings a large flock of swifts circles the mouth of the cave and about once each minute, a group of perhaps fifty breaks off and heads straight down towards the opening.