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Cows sleep standing up..

Swifts sleep in flight.
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Except when nesting, swifts spend their lives in the air, living on the insects caught in flight; they drink, feed, and often mate and sleep on the wing. Some individuals go 10 months without landing.

*should have posted this in @Groucho's fact hunt really
 

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Swifts sleep in flight.
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To quote wiki -
Except when nesting, swifts spend their lives in the air, living on the insects caught in flight; they drink, feed, and often mate and sleep on the wing. Some individuals go 10 months without landing.

*should have posted this in @Groucho's fact hunt really

They also deliberately climb to incredible altitudes, looking for thermals to latch onto, as once they go to sleep they continue to " glide " downwards during their sleep.
 
They also deliberately climb to incredible altitudes, looking for thermals to latch onto, as once they go to sleep they continue to " glide " downwards during their sleep.

Read this about them:

During the Great War, a French pilot flying over the front line reported the following:

"As we came down to about 10,000 feet in a full moon, we suddenly found ourselves in a strange flight of birds which seemed to be motionless, We were soon in the middle of the flock and the following day I found one in the machine. It was a swift."

A real ‘air’ bird. Possibly my favourite of all.
 

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