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Use what to break up tips of dead branches

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feet

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Monogamous or polygamous

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monogamous

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Today nest in

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man made structures almost exclusively; factory/house chimneys, silos, air shafts and old wells

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Number of eggs

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3 to 6, usually 4 or 5

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Winter mainly in

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amazon basin

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True or False :spends most of the daytime on the ground

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False-spends most daytime hours in the air

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What kind of sound in flight

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loud clicking calls

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Where does it's common name come from

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favorite nesting habitat and the speed of its flight

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average life span

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4 years

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True or False: In factory chimneys they roost by the thousands

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True

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Head south in

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August and September

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Scientific name

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Chaetura pelagica

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Describe nest

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shaped like a half-saucer and cemented to a vertical surface

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Family

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Apodidae

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What adaption lets it cling to upright surfaces

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tiny, vestigial feet with four-clawed toes facing forward

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How long/wingspan

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five inches long/one foot wingspan

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incubation time

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18 to 21 days

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precocial or altricial

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altricial and fed regurgitated insects

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True or False: drink while flying and gather material for nest in air

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True

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Who incubates the eggs?

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both male and female sometimes a third parent(yearling offspring of adults)

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Young fledge and join feeding flocks how long after hatching

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one month

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In the pas nested in

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hollow trees and caverns

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Arrive in the northeast in

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May

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Raise a single brood in

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June and July

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When do they gather before flying into large factory chimneys

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late summer

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Describe eggs

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white and unmarked

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True or False: pairs sometimes glide together with their wings raised in a V shape

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True

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Nest where

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protected from storms and predators

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Not common in the densely wooded parts of PA because

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trees are not mature enough to have cavities for nesting

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Flight is bat-like because it has

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shallow wingbeats/erratic stalls/turns as bird goes after insects

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Family Apodidae has how many species worldwide

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90

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Diet

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flies, leafhoppers, flying ants, mayflies, stoneflies, beetles, leaf bugs, and other flying insects

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Nest is held together by

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adult's glutinous saliva, which solidifies and binds as it dries

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