hi all firstly LOL means Laughs Out Loud. Last night I had a 3 hour experiment at a swift colony that has 6 breeding pairs on one building but 20+ including...
Hi Mark, I suppose it is always possible that your 20 birds were all breeders, 12 from the colony and 8 from another colony nearby? But more likely it is not ...
"PS I thought LOL meanıt Little Old Lady and it never seemed to make sense!" LOL! I suppose we will never fully understand Swifts and their needs. I...
with kind regards http://mozhetitak.livejournal.com/88015.html Ulrich ... __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam?...
amazing. Is the Swift nesting? What was the box put up for? can we get a wider shot to show it's position? Mark N Ireland ... From: Common Swift To:...
We have been hosting barn swallows for many years and I have studied them at length. However, something strange is happening. Today, SIX tiny baby birds fell...
Treva, Almost certainly the heat. The only time that Swallows nested near the roof of my corrugated iron-roofed barn, the young succumbed and fell out of the ...
Just wanted to tell a funny observation: in one of my large nestboxes the three 30 days old chicks love to sit near the entrance, waiting for the food-bringing...
Thank you so very much Dick for your comments regarding my Barn Swallow problem. We too have through it was just the heat. Thanks for suggesting the fan....
Dear Ulrich, Viktoria (author of the photos) writes there is probably no Swift's nest in this birdbox but swifts often visit it. I have recommended her to...
Hi Martin, You wrote: "The adult bird enters the box with the usual high speed, just darts through the little group of waiting chicks towards the nest which is...
Hi: Below there is the direction of a web which shows an albino Barn Swallow, probably a juv. to judge by the short tail feathers. I don't give much for its...
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With regard to the heatproblem, you will remember Dick, that the temperature reached the 35 centrigrades but not for a long period of time and not for day's on...
I am a Wildlife Rehabilitator and recently received a nest of 3 nestling Swifts. I do not know which species they are yet. Their feet are anisodactyl. Does...
... Yes observed this too here in Belgium. At a certain age I saw that this behaviour benefits the youngest one (4 and 2 days younger than the elderly in this...
Sorry, this Dutch message should have been translated before sending. Henk saw tonight a large group 750-1000 of Common Swifts in Capelle aan den IJssel (The...
Same here in Aalsmeer, The Netherlands, The one chick in this webcam nest is often out of reach of the camera because it crawls its way under the rooftiles up...
Sorry, once again a question/remark about an Apus apus behaviour: I heared several times a very distinct call like a series of short trills (quite different...
... aan den IJssel (The Netherlands), together with Gulls, Terns and a Hobby circling above his neighbourhood and asks if this is related to flying ants and if...
hi all Recently I told everyone how swifts fly around a house 69 paces from my house but show no interest in my boxes or CD. Anyway on monday I discovered that...
Hallo Martin, You wrote: "From my point of view it seems that this call is especially performed by new pairs which discovered a brandnew (empty) nestbox and...
... <the bird in front with the trill call wants to show the nest entrance to his "will be" partner.Harm< There is indeed a Swift language. Not only by means...
Hello Marlene, Yes, I would think both duration of high temperature and humidity would be relevant. Just to bring the group up to speed with what I have been...
Surely Mark, you can persuade him to restore the integrity of his house, without closing the holes. It can be extremely difficult to shift Swifts from their...
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