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Range Map for Black Swift

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Migration

Medium- to long-distance migrant. Migrates in groups of several hundred or more, sometimes with other swifts and swallows.

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Map data provided by Carolyn Gunn and Cornell Lab of Ornithology

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Swifts(Order: Caprimulgiformes, Family: Apodidae)

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