Scientific Name:   Chaetura pelagica

Length:   4.7-5.9 in (12-15 cm)

Weight:   0.6-1.1 oz (17-30 g)

Wingspan:   10.6-11.8 in (27-30 cm)

Nest:   The nest is shaped like half a saucer, made of twigs glued together with the birds' saliva. Adults break off short dead twigs while zooming past in flight.

Eggs:   4-5, sometimes 3-6. White. Incubation is by both parents, 19-21 days.

Feeding Behavior:   They look for food in the sky over any kind of terrain, wherever there are flying insects, in urban and suburban areas, rivers, lakes, forests, and fields.

Young:   Both parents feed young, by regurgitating insects. Young may climb out of nest after about 20 days, creeping up vertical walls. Age of young at first flight about 28-30 days.

Range:   Known to migrate in flocks during daylight hours, wintering in eastern Peru and possibly in the Amazon Basin of South America.

Brief Description:   These small birds between sparrow and robin with slender bodies and very long, narrow, curved wings. They have round heads, short necks, dark gray-brown all over, slightly paler on the throat and short, tapered tails.