{"id":8527,"date":"2011-09-01T09:21:18","date_gmt":"2011-09-01T07:21:18","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2024-05-01T11:50:58","modified_gmt":"2024-05-01T09:50:58","slug":"common-swift","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.masmallorca.es\/en\/fauna-of-mallorca\/common-swift.html","title":{"rendered":"Common Swift"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-8503 size-full\" style=\"margin-right: 20px; margin-left: 20px; margin-bottom: 20px; float: right;\" title=\"Common Swift (Apus apus), Mallorca\" src=\"https:\/\/www.masmallorca.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/vencejo-mallorca.jpg\" alt=\"Common Swift (Apus apus), Mallorca\" width=\"150\" height=\"105\" \/>The Common Swift is an insectivore of the Apodiformes bird order which pays visit to our towns and cities over the spring\/summer period.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-8508 size-full\" style=\"margin: 10px 20px 10px 0px; float: left;\" title=\"Common Swift (Apus apus), Mallorca\" src=\"https:\/\/www.masmallorca.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/vencejo-mallorca-1.jpg\" alt=\"Common Swift (Apus apus), Mallorca\" width=\"350\" height=\"467\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.masmallorca.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/vencejo-mallorca-1.jpg 350w, https:\/\/www.masmallorca.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/vencejo-mallorca-1-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">While here they breed, depositing an average of two eggs in small crevices on building facades and under our roofs in what is the only time of the year they touch dry land.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The rest of the year they spend flying, eating, sleeping and copulating in the air.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Common Swift is designed to fly at great speeds and to capture insects, with long, narrow wings, fusiform bodies, large mouths to capture their prey and short little legs for gripping onto walls when making their nests.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-8513 size-full\" style=\"margin: 10px 20px 10px 0px; float: left;\" title=\"Common Swift (Apus apus), Mallorca\" src=\"https:\/\/www.masmallorca.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/vencejo-mallorca-3.jpg\" alt=\"Common Swift (Apus apus), Mallorca\" width=\"350\" height=\"222\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.masmallorca.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/vencejo-mallorca-3.jpg 350w, https:\/\/www.masmallorca.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/vencejo-mallorca-3-300x190.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>Scientific name:<\/strong> Apus apus.\u00a0 <br \/>\n<strong>Catalan common name: <\/strong>Falzia.\u00a0 <br \/>\n<strong>Spanish common name:<\/strong> Vencejo.<\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-8522\" title=\"Common Swift (Apus apus), Mallorca\" src=\"https:\/\/www.masmallorca.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/vencejo-mallorca-2.jpg\" alt=\"Common Swift (Apus apus), Mallorca\" width=\"940\" height=\"1253\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.masmallorca.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/vencejo-mallorca-2.jpg 540w, https:\/\/www.masmallorca.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/vencejo-mallorca-2-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 940px) 100vw, 940px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Common Swift is an insectivore of the Apodiformes bird order which pays visit to our towns and cities over the spring\/summer period.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8518,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8527","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fauna-of-mallorca","et-has-post-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>El Vencejo (Apus apus) | +Mallorca: the magazine of Mallorca<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"+Mallorca, Fauna: Common Swift, an insectivore bird, visit to our towns and cities over the spring\/summer period. 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