Ok, you are right, by the way people in the group now knows there are some of them that share air space with birds. Just last advice, paragliding is an...
Hi All, Again good newes from Aalsmeer, The Netherlands: a second swift young came out of it's egg.I captured a feeding session where a just returning parent...
hi all I heard today that a huge colony of House Martins has so far not returned to breed this year. There are 120+ nests on one gable of a building. Very...
I have not the slightest idea about the energy need of a flying swift. Let's say how many little flies (like drosophila spec.) per hour to obtain a good food...
I would like to understand why these parasites have such an extreme ability to keep beeing attached to the surface. If I do not remember wrong Erich Kaiser...
Hi all, At 07.40am BST on Sat 3rd June 06 I had a Swift enter an unused nest box on my house. I had the response calls cd playing that prompted 1 bird from a...
... It would be interesting to know other details about this phenomenon Mark. Was this in N. Ireland ? Thanks for the message anyway. Louis-Philippe Arnhem ...
Hello Martin, Guten Tag The body and feet of the flat-fly are specially adapted for life amongst the feathers. The insect is very flat so it can hide between...
yes it's here in N Ireland at the Lough Neagh Discovery Centre http://www.oxfordisland.com/loughneagh.shtml I was told they were there earlier this year. I'll...
Hello, Pascal wonders if the three pictures taken of a Swift in Saint-Pierre et Miquelon (French territory next to Canada) are of a Common Swift ? See link and...
It started 4 days ago. During the afternoon I was observing carefully and I noticed a different flight dynamics of several Swifts. No doubt! It was the maden...
[I am cross-posting this to Surfbirds, without apologies] This looks pretty good for Common Swift to me, and not only that, the high pressure to the west of us...
Amnonn I'm in the UK at the moment and pleasently surprised by the number of swifts, still good numbers over my natal village in Leicestershire and other...
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hi all the non breeders must have arrived. This time yesterday there were approx 20 swifts flying around my area all in pairs unless doing the group display. ...
Hello Mark, Yes here too, the non-breeders (or part of them) arrived, as they bang at the boxes and sometimes search under the wrong eaves. The compact...
There is little evidence of non-breeders here in Landbeach yet. I have 2 pairs in nest-boxes (same as last year), and my low flying birds number from 2 to 5,...
Hi Mark and Luis-Philippe, Regarding those different voices. Those "little scream". I have noticed them as well. I do not regard them as "little scream" as to...
Hallo All, I hear this too, and call it the little bicycle pump call. That is where this little sound does make me think off. Mostly a small group who are...
I also guess that the last years chicks started to arrive, because the number is a bit higher and the reaction to the attracting calls is totally different. ...
My birds make this sound as well, sometimes muttering it to themselves inside the nest-box, even after dark. I would describe it as ³zhe zhe² where the...
In my case it is always the second bird which makes the sound My Swift friend, Brian Cahalane who I must show how to tell you all about his own sucess, has had...
Shalom Amnonn, ... This is a question that those should answer, who have experiences with marking birds. Erich Kaiser is ringing for many decades and has lots...
The last few days there where only two young swifts visible in the Aalsmeer swift webcam nest. The youngest probably died because of his two older brother and...
It has been several days that they flew away from here. Went with friends to the north of Israel last Friday to fly Paragliders. My mood was cheered up with...
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Dear Amnonn, what do you mean by "Mountain Swifts"? I observerd several times in Berlin that flocks of Swifts flew over the colonies after the residents had ...
Hello Amnonn, That sounds like a pretty amazing flight! Would those small mountain Swifts you saw be Little Swifts Apus affinis? My book shows they are present...
Hi Ulrich, Many thanks for the info. Best regards, Amnon ... From: Common Swift To: Swallows-Martins-Swifts-Worldwide@yahoogroups.com Sent: Saturday, June 10,...
Dear Ulrich, We call them "Sis Harim". The Mountain Swifts are basically the Alpine Swifts. The one visiting here is the smalest one of this kind. The...
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