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==Distribution and habitat== [[File:Chaetura pelagica -Perryville, Missouri, USA -chimney-8 (1).jpg|right|thumb|Chimney swifts, like these in a chimney in Missouri, United States, roost communally when not breeding.]] A widespread breeding visitor to much of the eastern half of the United States and the southern reaches of eastern Canada, the chimney swift [[bird migration|migrates]] to South America for the winter. It is a rare summer visitor to the western U.S,<ref name = "Kaufman"/> and has been recorded as a [[vagrancy (biology)|vagrant]] in [[Anguilla]], [[Barbados]], [[Greenland]], [[Jamaica]], [[Portugal]], the [[United Kingdom]] and the [[U.S. Virgin Islands]].<ref name=IUCN/> It is found over open country, savanna, wooded slopes and humid forests.<ref name = "Edwards"/> The chimney swift's wintering grounds were only discovered in 1944, when bands from birds [[ringed|banded]] (ringed) in North America were recovered in Peru.<ref name = "Lincoln"/> An [[Indigenous peoples in Peru|indigenous Peruvian]] had been wearing the bands as a necklace.<ref name = "Wilson"/>
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