Talk:Swift (bird)

message: These birds have very short legs and never settle voluntarily on the ground, perching instead on vertical surfaces. This tradition continued into the middle ages, as see in the heraldic martlet.
What is this supposed to mean? Is perching vertically a "tradition" or that perching vertically continued into the middle ages but since that time swifts changed over to perching in some other fashtion? Is something missing or was removed in the midst of the paragraph that would lend some sense to it?
:should make more sense now. jimfbleak 05:52, 12 September 2005 (UTC)
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message: It would be good to have a photograph of a swift. Snowman 09:39, 3 June 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: We have a family of them on our front porch. I managed a photograph of the nest and babies, but the parents left in a huff! I'll keep trying! Sarum blue 01:34, 15 June 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: OK, I made two photos. Don't know where to put them within this nice scientific article, but look for CommonSwift.jpg and ApusApus.jpg. I uploaded them into Wikipedia. I hesitate to put them in the article unless somebody else agrees the quality is good enough. 
Sarum blue 01:46, 16 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Photo

message: article does not tell distribution of swifts except for mentioning that they winter in the tropics. where do they spend the summer? do they spend most of their time over water or over land? Richard Dawkins writes in Climbing Mt. Improbable  that swifts *sleep* while in flight.
:I think you are referring to the Common Swift jimfbleak 05:11, 14 September 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: distribution added in text Jimfbleak (talk) 05:17, 7 March 2008 (UTC)

text: I concur it seems unlikely. Sabine's Sunbird  talk 04:57, 31 October 2016 (UTC)
thread_title: Distribution

message: If martlet was derived from a swift, only the Common Swift is a plausible candidate in Europe. However, marlet is often believed to refer to the House Martin, or possibly a swallow. The  short tufts of feathers in the place of legs fits the Common House Martin better than the swifts, since it has feathered legs and feet. It was the cadency mark of the fourth son of a noble family, and features in many coats of arms, including the Plantagenets. The lack of feet signified its inability to land, which explained its link to a younger son, also landless. It also represented swiftness. 
Jimfbleak -  talk to me? 14:11, 24 December 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Martlet

message: These figures are pure trash, since they are well above the real maximal values for speeds of these birds, unless they were measure after a stoop.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 83.132.0.2 (talk) 22:20, 14 July 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  112 km/h and 169 km/h 

message: I'm a bit unfamiliar with the naming conventions so I could be wrong on this, but it seems weird that the page "Swift" would refer to a bird, since the main use of the word "swift" is just a word that means "fast". Wouldn't it make more sense if this page was changed to "Swift (bird)" (or something like that) and the disambiguation page was just called "Swift"? Similar to the pages Bug or Place. Finnigami (talk) 01:24, 18 March 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: Finnigami, as with many dictionary definitions, I don't think that we have an article for the word in the sense that you mean, so it would be odd to have a red link as the main use. I think of the meaning that do have an article, this is the major use. Apologies if I've missed something or misunderstood what you are suggesting Jimfbleak - talk to me? 11:48, 18 March 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Naming Convention 

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