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Re: PACIFIC SWALLOW V. WELCOME SWALLOW IMM.

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Subject: Re: PACIFIC SWALLOW V. WELCOME SWALLOW IMM.
From: "Frank O'Connor" <>
Date: Wed, 01 Feb 2006 17:13:07 +0800

Lorne Johnson raised this topic. I hesitate to contribute, but maybe it is time that we found out more about these birds.

The Pacific Swallow has not been accepted for Australia. I understood that the swallows in question had been mist netted and banded. I saw them many years ago north of Mossman at a chicken farm, where they had been reported by others. The birds that I saw did not have white spots on the tail. Rather they had a white sub terminal bar on each side of the tail. I have taken an interest in Welcome Swallows ever since, and these are still the only Welcome Swallows that I have seen with bars on the tail, rather than spots. They had the less forked tail, etc. This was a while ago, but there were at least three birds from memory, maybe as many as six.

So why were these birds not accepted?


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