You'll need your volume on for this one! 🎧 What you're hearing are the distinctive sounds of a swift parrot's call—'swit swit'—while searching for food. A swift parrot's favourite food to eat is nectar found on the outer canopy of flowering eucalypts and the occasional psyllids and lerps, seeds and flowers. They want it so much so that some have been seen travelling a further 1,000 km distance outside their normal range just to get a good supply of food! What's your best imitation of a swift pa

The Bird That Never Lands: Study Finds Swifts Fly for 10 Months Straight Scientists have discovered that the common swift, a migratory bird found across Europe, can remain airborne for up to 10 months without landing. Using tracking devices, researchers revealed that swifts eat, mate, sleep and even collect nesting material entirely in mid-air, making them one of the most extreme flyers in the animal kingdom. The study highlights remarkable biological adaptation but also raises concerns, as clim