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This little bird can ceaselessly fly for ten months

Scientists from Sweden have found a bird that can fly in the air for almost a year and that too without landing. Known as the common swift, it is a small, dark-feathered bird which can fly for the said time without landing, the longest time spent aloft by any known bird. The findings in the US journal Current Biology confirmed a 46-year-old hypothesis, first offered by British researcher Ron Lockley, […]