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ZEISS DTI thermal imaging cameras. For more discoveries at night, and during the day.

Black Swifts are fascinating, nesting only behind waterfalls.... (1 Viewer)

snoqualmieScott

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And in sea caves along the coast. Known to leave their nest early in the morning and to return late in the evening, feeding at high altitudes during the day.

My video is of a dozen or so that came in one evening in late May.

lead in is of the Peregrine Falcons, Black Swifts start at 4:11:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DdME4ojLxxI

Fewer than 150 black swift breeding sites are known in the United States, with 108 (as of July 2012) known from Colorado.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_black_swift

http://www.aba.org/thecoolestbird.pdf
 
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