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Vol. 1 No. 4 (1970)

NOTES: CHIMNEY SWIFTS IN COASTAL SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA

Submitted
August 6, 2025
Published
October 1, 1970

Abstract

On 22 June 1968, around 16:00, I noticed a dark, uniformly colored swift — that eventually proved to be a Chimney Swift Chaetura pelagica — flying over the streets of La Jolla, a suburb in northwestern San Diego. A second individual was found a little later by Xenia Devillers and me; one or both of the swifts were seen again briefly later that evening and observed for two hours on the 23rd (with Clifford R. Lyons) and the 24th. 

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