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An individual swift is known to have lived for as long as eighteen
years. In its lifetime, it must have flown some four million miles. That
is the equivalent of flying to the moon and back eight times. (David
Attenborough, The Life of Birds, p. 70)
The albatross (Diomedea exulans), one of the birds with the greatest
wing span, makes a round trip of more than 15,000 kilometers (9,300
miles) in a single foraging trip while his mate is on incubation duty.
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