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wintering grounds of other long-distance migrants was known. After all, European and American Ornithologists had been observing and collecting birds in the great forests of Central and South America for two hundred years. Where did the twinkling flight of Chimney Swifts take them when they left the United States?
It was not until the 1940’s that this question was finally answered. Thousands of Chimney Swifts were banded with numbered aluminum bands early in this centuiy. In just one year — 1939 — 712,623 birds were captured and banded. Much was learned. Swifts return of the same chimney to nest year after year. In tomado-like funnels, they streamed by the thousands into the same chimney to spend the night during migration. One swift was caught re-peatedly for nine years. After the South American winter territory was finally discovered, it was estimated that the bird had traveled 1,350,000 miles in its lifetime.
In 1944 a dramatic event occurred along the Yanayacu River in Peru. An Indian appeared at a mission station in the jungle with a necklace of shiny bird bands. After convincing the Indian that the bands were not messages from
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