G'day all,
I'm in total agreement with Trevor and Laurie about the beauty of and
enjoyment at seeing White-backed Swallows. I too had my best views of them
recently after a period of probably five years since I first saw them in
the Capertee Valley.
We saw a pair of them sky-dancing, effortless, graceful and exhilarating,
above a sandy blow-out on top of a small dune/hill in Wyperield Nat Park in
Victoria back at the end of March. Then a pair perched just like any other
swallow on telegraph wires beside the road on the edge of Lake Menindee in
western NSW, and several more in Kinchega Nat Park itself. Very lovely
birds!
I also seem to appreciate them for the fact that they are endemic to
Australia and are in a genus of their own (at least I think they are -
correct me if I'm wrong). I haven't checked it out in any references at
home yet, but what is it about them that puts them in a monospecific genus??
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Dr Harvey D. Perkins :: Editor, :
Divn Biochemistry & Molecular Biology :: Canberra Bird Notes :
Faculty of Science :: (Journal of the Canberra :
Australian National University :: Ornithologists Group - COG) :
Canberra, ACT 0200, Australia :: 42 Summerland Circuit, :
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