Some common swifts leave their nesting sites and do not land again for ten months, remaining airborne throughout migration and their entire African non-breeding season — a small bird spending almost a full year eating and managing its life in the sky before touching solid ground to reproduce
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Activity loggers showed common swifts spending more than 99% of a ten-month non-breeding period aloft. Three birds recorded no landing at all.
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