hello folk, I get involved in your "topic" because I helped a swift to renew his strenght and take off in summer 2003. Well, I learnt a little about that...
Hello Vincenzo, Welcome to SMS Worldwide. Your thougths are well understandable, me being from Holland. You don't have to apologize for your english ever. I do...
Forwarded from WestPalBirds discussion group. JS. Dear all I'm writing revision of my short note on arrival and departure dates of Common Swift in the middle...
Boun giorno Vincenzo, Welcome to the site, your English is fine and can be understood. When releasing Swifts, please do not throw them into the sky. They will ...
Dear Abolghasem, it is nice to hear from your efforts. I try to collect dates about the arrival (and departure) of Apus apus for a couple of years. There are...
I wonder about the kinf of support that a swift obtain after the take off from parent and or relatives. As I told you the swift I supported was in good healt, ...
George, yes, of course theyr bones and feather are fragile. but theyr travel speed during the flight is considerable, I never saw swift (full black variant of...
Hello from Vancouver BC; I just joined this forum at the invitation from Louis-Philippe Arnhem I would mlike to thank you Louis-Philippe for telling me about...
Hello Glenn, Thank YOU for joining us ! I hope that you will enjoy this forum and that we all will learn something from each other. Can you observe Chimney...
Dear Colleagues, I am relatively new member who has not yet written to the forum. I have waited and read your exchanges waiting for my "excuse." The excuse...
Reuven Yosef
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Jan 19, 2005 6:08 am
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... Yes and before releasing them please train them a little bit at home. Its a wonder how most of them learn to fly in a flat. One of my champions was able to...
Welcome Glenn, and thanks for the friendly introduction. I have been a birder for most of my life, enjoy swifts and swallows and this group immensely. Hope to...
Wow Reuven, 12 to 15 thousand birds. My whole life I have wanted to join the observation of migrants in Israel, now this has become a desire to join the...
Where I live the signs of swallows preparing for migrations are very clear. The birds begin to gather in very large numbers on power lines that hang over a...
HI Ulrich, sorry to say that although a very abundant migrant here we catch very few of them - 1-2 a season. Promise to keep eyes open from now and to report...
Reuven Yosef
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Jan 19, 2005 7:51 pm
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Thanx Trevors, you are welcome to come and participate. I do take a lot of volunteers/interns/students who train with me. Or those interested in cooperating...
Reuven Yosef
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Jan 19, 2005 7:53 pm
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Hello everyone, ... I surveyed swift colonies and numbers of low flying swifts to gain as much information as i could on this amazing bird. ... Holland and...
I am planning to take my vacation in the San Diego, California area this March. I understand the swallows return to San Juan Capistrano like clockwork and was...
... I keep a few injured hirundo rustica at home and since a few days they behave a little bit different - more active, more grumbling but not so hectic and...
I have just returned from South Africa where in one heady moment I had 5 species of Swift at close range in one flock on top of Table Mountain. I later managed...
Dave, pls check APUSlist, the bibliography of the Common Swift http://www.commonswift.org/bibl_english.html. You find quite a couple of breeding researches on...
Gabriele Hirundo rustica are not yet showing signs og gathering to migrate, it is too early for this. They do gather in small numbers every day on the lines...
Trevors thank you for the information. Interesting! Austrian swallows return to their breeding range in April or even end of March so I think "my" Hirundo...
Hello Marleen The feathers and feather sheaths of Swifts and in fact all other known species of birds are actually a substance called Avian Keratin. This is ...
I just read a report from a reliable birder that he saw swallows flying around the western end of the Fraser Valley today, For those of you who are not...
Hello all, My name is Alber Noorlander. I'm a birdwatcher fom the Netherlands. I'm especially interested in Swifts and Swiftlets from southeast Asia, the House...
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