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What species of insects do swifts eat?

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Андреас, 12.12.2022 11:49

Hello.I recently read about the diet of the American crepuscular swift (they build nests BEHIND waterfalls), then he was puzzled. "Isn't it all flying in the air?"??
An ornithologist I know suggested that they might pick up insects from the surface of a pond... - but I think Wikipedia is just bullshit, - and with this flightless kit, - you won't get enough, even in their Brazil.

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12.12.2022 12:05, Андреас

Also, I believe that insects in the jungle are significantly larger than ours; and they cannot be part of the" air plankton " that our Black Swift feeds on (again from Wikipedia).

12.12.2022 13:28, AVA

Also, I believe that insects in the jungle are significantly larger than ours; and they cannot be part of the" air plankton " that our Black Swift feeds on (again from Wikipedia).

This is a misconception. "In the jungle" is quite enough and all sorts of little things.

14.12.2022 18:11, Андреас

- OK. But the distribution of flying families, which is food for the twilight swift , is nonsense in my opinion. I would like confirmation. Ornithologists did not answer me anything intelligible on their forum.

14.12.2022 18:26, Victor Titov

- OK. But the distribution of flying families, which is food for the twilight swift , is nonsense in my opinion. I would like confirmation. Ornithologists did not answer me anything intelligible on their forum.

Why is that nonsense? Among the representatives of the beetle families found in the stomachs of birds (grains, staphylinae, weevils, leaf beetles, spangles), species of very small size and capable of flight predominate. There are also small and flying species among black-bodied beetles and ground beetles (especially). So during certain periods of their life cycle, it is not a problem for them to get on a flight to a haircut dinner. The same applies to bedbugs. And as for diptera, hymenoptera (ichneumonids and ants) and equiptera-God himself ordered wink.gifthem .

This post was edited by Dmitrich - 12/14/2022 18: 29
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