Dear all + esp. Peter Middelkoop/NL, the morning of July 29th was the last morning I heard and saw "my" swiftgroup circling around their breeding places in...
Dear Friends, I like inform you that now the english version of our website www.swallowschool.it is working again, some months ago an hacker was destroied...
All gone, that's what I say to the dog after she has had her tea. Well this is just a little message to firstly say I'm sorry for all the swifts dedicated...
Greetings! For the fifth year, the Driftwood Wildlife Association will be hosting "A SWIFT NIGHT OUT". As summer draws to a close and the swifts have finished...
PJ and other members of SMS who are feeling sad at the departure or imminent departure of swifts and swallows, the migrants are slowly beginning to trickle...
Asking the ring leader Trevor about ringing. Example, say a swallow came next year to nest in my barn and I noticed a ring on it. Are rings colour coded or...
Swift papers: For those of you with a more academic interest in swifts, the Italian journal Avocetta devoted a whole issue (Vol. 17, No. 2, Dec. 1993) to ...
Charles T. Collins
ccollins@...
Aug 2, 2005 6:07 pm
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This email is mainly aimed for swallow followers. Some conclusions I myself have come to except. This may be noted for future reference to help others taking...
Peter I don't understand what is going on in your barn as Swallows can be very communal like the nest site in a barn I know of with 12s of pairs nesting. Mark ...
PJ Birds are usually ringed with metal rings that have a unique number and a message that informs the finder where to send information. So, for example, birds...
Mark first of all they areWelsh swallows that should explain it. Other than that it is a known fact a rogue swallow without a mate will throw out babies and...
Hi fellows At least few ringers have ringed Barn Swallows also with colour ring. Colour-ringed Swallows http://home.scarlet.be/~pin02658/cr-hirundinidae.htm ...
Hi, Dirk Raes excellent site about color ringing schemes gives details of nearly all European / West Palearctic schemes, plus contacts, for a huge range of ...
Andrew Paterson
andypat@...
Aug 3, 2005 3:36 pm
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PJ ringing in. so while on the subject of ringing I have another question. Metal rings. Could they be a danger to birds in thunder storms. Many people have...
For the sentimental people out there. we are having appalling weather at the wrong time now and the swallows are still trying to feed their young now ten...
Hi, In the past two weeks numbers of Common and Pallid Swifts have diminished rapidly down here near Malaga, Spain, so that instead of the evening swirls of...
Andrew Paterson
andypat@...
Aug 4, 2005 5:12 pm
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Hello PJ I think it is highly unlikely that the scenarios you describe could come about. We have nearly 80 years of ringing data for a wide variety of species ...
Just a note to let you know that today four heads were protruding from the swallows nest in barn. I was quite amazed as they have already lost two babies, and...
Hi, Andrew and to all the friendsl I don't know why in Valencia the swifts were eliminated totally about July 15 and 500 more km towards the south still were...
Jorge Sanz
jsanzribera@...
Aug 5, 2005 9:48 pm
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Hello SMS members; Sorry I have not been in touch. I have been trying to put funds together for the cd I promised to deliver to the group. So I have not ...
Hola Jorge et al., Yes, MIGRES does record in the Strait of Gibraltar but is basically concerned with storks and birds of prey, other species such as swifts...
Andrew Paterson
andypat@...
Aug 6, 2005 2:41 pm
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Hola de nuevo Andrew and to all the friendsl I understand that you are going to Cadiz to take part in and project Migrate, if it's like that it's an...
Jorge Sanz
jsanzribera@...
Aug 6, 2005 3:42 pm
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Hi, Jorge et al., No, I'm not taking part in MIGRES, it's just an odd visit down there for the day's birding as it's only two hundred kms from home and there...
Andrew Paterson
andypat@...
Aug 6, 2005 4:10 pm
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Andy keep those birds of prey down in the Med, offer them bed and breakfast. Horrors have been killing with vengeance in this part of Wales lately. Nothing is...
Good Morning Not all Swifts have gone saw one this evening at Haslington near Crewe, Cheshire in the UK Cheers Len [Non-text portions of this message have been...
Not much mail lately from the group, so taking this opportunity to update you with swallows progress. Today 8th August and the baby swallows all four of them...
Hi, Andrew Your observations are very interesting, you have been lucky to see diverse species of swift. I have seen only for the zone of Valencia the common...
Jorge Sanz
jsanzribera@...
Aug 9, 2005 11:10 am
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Full forward from Neil Baker. Louis-Philippe ... From: "Neil & Liz Baker" <tzbirdatlas@...> To: "Matthew Aeberhard" <matthew@...> ...
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