On Tue, Mar 04, 2008 at 11:37:00AM +1100, Jerry Bishop wrote:
> The son of a friend took the following photo recently at Lake Tuggeranong.
>
> What has got me going are the buff flanks extending down to the bars in the
> undertail coverts. The only reference that I have which illustrates a
> Swallow with barred undertail coverts is in Michael Morecombe's Field Guide
> to the Birds of Australia, 2000 - Pacific Swallow (Hirundo tahitica).
At first glance, the tail looks too long for Pacific Swallow;
it reminds me of some swallows I saw in FNQ while looking for
Barn Swallows, which I think we decided were younger birds.
This BARC submission gives a lot of detail about the difficulties
in identifying Pacific Swallows:
http://users.bigpond.net.au/palliser/barc/sub197.html
> If I am right in my identification it might be a first for the ACT. What do
> others think?
Pacific Swallow is only on the supplementary list in Christidis
and Boles 2008; I don't have my copy here to find out why that
is the case, but from memory there hasn't been a successful
BARC submission as yet.
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