Generally, all Apus apus winter in Africa south of the equator. However, small numbers may winter N of Sahara, in Egypt, in Israel, and Arab Gulf states...
Erich's observation is perhaps corroborated by the following (from Nguyen Quang, P & Voisin, J-F. 1998. Influence of cave structure, microclimate and nest...
Wow, this is really amazing -- thank you for this very interesting answer! They do all this way from the far east to africa! of course, for a bird which is...
Hi Martin, Do you mean the Asian subspecies pekinensis of the Common Swift or do you mean the Fork-tailed Swift (Apus pacificus)? Anyway, both subspecies of...
Hello Swift friends, (Dutch version below) I got this beautiful picture from my Dutch friend Marleen Andriessen. It is a Swift's nest found in 2001 in...
Hi all, As I read some letters in yahoo group Birds in Russia about arrival of Apus apus in many parts of its areal that spring I wrote my data about Bulgaria...
Hello, For my welcome I posted some pictures in the newly created map in the Apus apus section under images for you all to enjoy. As an amateur photohunter I...
Forwarded mail. (...) Following our correspondence last year, I got my 2 nest tenements + speaker up (see attached). They adopt your various suggestions,...
I mean the Asian subspecies pekinensis of the Common Swift... ... do you mean the Fork-tailed Swift (Apus pacificus)? ... Africa, indeed amazing. ... course, ...
Forwarded mail. Dear Edward, Thought you might be interested in the attached article from the June issue of "Chemistry World". The key thing to understand is ...
Hi all, To share with you I uploaded 4 pict. of House Martins in the photosection/map Martins\Images. It looks to me that Martins are even harder to shoot then...
Forwarded mail from Ken Perry. You will find the map in : Photos/SWIFTS/Apus apus/Muckamore colony Louis-Philippe ... From: "Ken Perry" Sent: Friday, June 04,...
Hi all, For ya all I placed one flightshot from a Red-rumped Swallow in the Photosection Map \swallows\images. It was one off my best shots ever,and the last...
Hello everyone Today at the Oxford Museum colony we have our first hatching of Swifts this year. In one of our boxes are two newborn young and an egg. The...
I got a pretty odd story from my uncle today. Last week he was called to rescue a Swift in Flobecq (about 40 km W of Brussels, Belgium) who was found in the...
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Hello all, Thought some of you might be interested in this happy little story. It is not uncommon for House Martins Delichon urbica to nest on ferries that...
Hello All, does anyone know the status of Red Sea Swallow? Looking at my Swallows & Martins book the other day, it's a few years since it was first described....
Some reactions from Belgium : 1) june 2000 at the west-coast of Estland (ferry from Virtsu to Saarema island). Maarten Hens saw many House Martins which took...
Hi all, I placed for your viewing pleasure a flightshot of an Alpine Swift in the photosection map Swift\Apus melba\images. It's not supersharp but nice en...
Hi Keith Other unidentified, but similar, swallows have been seen in Ethiopia (e.g. 20 at L Langano, up to 12 in Awash National Park, also at three other...
Blank2nd June London NW6 - 10 Swifts screaming around the Fawley Road area at low level at dusk, after 9pm 4th June Rye, East Sussex - 20 Swifts screaming in a...
Titchwell RSPB Reserve, Norfolk, 2 June, in cold windy weather, approx 300 swifts feeding over the lagoons, many zooming over us at head height. There were ...
Dear Edward Good to read your updates. Just a little point about your quote at the end of your e-mail. It appears you have a typo there. Shouldn't the first...
I visited a rather active and funny colony in a medieval building in Leuven tonight. As usual in june with warm, fine weather a real noisy "houseparty" went...
Hello, This email message is a notification to let you know that a file has been uploaded to the Files area of the Swallows-Martins-Swifts-Worldwide group. ...
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