G'day birders, last week while holidaying at Culburra (NSW south coast, east of
Nowra) I saw some swifts that I couldn't identify. When I first saw then I
thought they must have been fork-tails as they were quite slim looking birds,
but when I got the binoculars onto them they didn't have they deeply forked
tail that I was expecting to see, it was much more martin like. Later
observations made me realise it was the rump that was white, not the vent.
I am really stumped as to what they were. David Stowe's report of swifts
without forking in the tail sounds similar to what I saw. Is there a good web
site or reference for the ID of these beasties.
And I would urge birders from Sydney north to keep an eye our for swifts at the
moment there could be some oddities amongst them (I say Sydney north as they
birds I was watching on the south coast did like a compass before the southerly
change on saturday, they headed north)
Cheers
Graham Turner
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