Dear Friends, Last weekend I was in Rye, East Sussex, near Romney Marsh and Dungeness, and over a weekend with lots of rain, starting pretty cold and ending...
Hello guys ! One birder has seen one fully albino Barn Swallow in the swallows flock in Vihti, Vanjärvi (S-Finland) in 29.9.2004. In addition to: 29.9.04...
Some obs from Hanko Birdstation (S-Finland) in autumn 2004 18.8.04 317 migr. Swifts 28.8.04 230 m. Swifts 31.8.04 376 m. Swifts 31.8.04 482 m. House...
Greetings, Two nights ago we had 209 Chimney Swifts roosting in our concrete Chimney Swift Tower in northwest Travis county Texas, but tonight we counted 260...
Observated in Western Palearctic region Apodidae (n=11) Chimney Swift Chaetura pelagica White-throated Needletail Hirundapus caudacutus Cape Verde Swift...
Hi fellows ! If you are interesting Barn Swallow, see next webpage: http://web.uct.ac.za/depts/stats/adu/safring/results/0493.htm Marleen ! There were these...
Hi again ! Pictures from Barn Swallow X House Martin hybrid : Mating : http://www.nioo.knaw.nl/projects/boerenzwaluw/sitehtm/copulatie.htm Juvenile Hybrids : ...
Hi guys ! See follow links : http://www.nioo.knaw.nl/projects/boerenzwaluw/sitehtm/albino.htm http://www.nioo.knaw.nl/projects/boerenzwaluw/sitehtm/albino2.htm...
Over Rye, East Sussex, UK, at the weekend, in wet and windy weather, I watched a few small parties of House Martins and a few Swallows struggling to leave...
On the east coast of South Africa things are beginning to happen. Large mixed flocks of swifts are seen frequently now, usually made up of African Black Swift...
Hello fellows, Because we have boring time without swallows, martins and swifts here in the Northern hermisphere (at this time at least North and Central...
hi all I have just returned from a holiday in the north of Scotland. I was amazed to see quite high numbers of Swallows, House and Sand Martins Mark N Ireland ...
hi all thanks for all the informatiom which I have been reading. I have been away for a week so have much to catch up with Mark N Ireland [Non-text portions of...
Big Time! The following information, culled from the francophone Swallows'n'Swifts website Martinets-Hirondelles, gives details of a spectacular exodus of UK...
Hi Trevor, Good to hear from you! Rye is indeed a great place to be in and around, and to watch birds from. As you know we are at a sort of avian crossroads ...
Forwarded mail from Martinets-hirondelles; Jean-François Lebihan. Hybrid Delichon and Hirundo. See link below : and click on menu "Kepek" and choose "Ritka...
Dear friends! I saw still today two juvenile Barn Swallows at Aasla, SW Finnish Archipelago. The night temperature was near zero and these birds seemed to be...
Hi all! My question is how old a Swift may become. The reason is following: in the spring 1970 my cousin found a leg with a ring on it. When reported to the...
The longest-lived British Swift was recovered 16 years after it was ringed (as an adult). David Lack states in his book 'Swifts in a Tower' that young birds do...
In Ulric Tigges webpages ( http://www.swift.utigges.il.eu.org ) has mentioned that the common swift's age record is 21 or 22 years based on ringing control. I...
Hello ! Longevity Records of North American Birds. The information on life span is collected every time a banded bird is reported to the Bird Banding...
What age can a Swift achieve? George Candelin at the Oxford Natural History Museum Swift Colony has one record of a Swift living to 19; he told us about it at...
Over Bournemouth, Hampshire, England on 9th and 10th October: hundreds, perhaps thousands of House Martins Delichon urbica flying over the town in strong winds...
1.10.04 Rönnskär (S-Finland) 21 m. 15 l. Barn Swallows 5.10.04 Rönnskär (S-Finland) 31 m. Barn Swallows 9.10.04 Houtskari(SW-Finland) 6 Barn Swallows ...
If you run a simple model with assumptions that the survival of juveniles to 1st summer is 40% (say) and subsequent annual survival is 83% (so 1 in 6 do not ...
Hello, Emil Weitnauer in Switzerland had one swift (ringed) that reached the age of 21 years. In that period the bird had only 2 different mates. See his book:...
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