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Re: Needletails

To: "Ricki Coughlan" <>, "Birding Aus" <>
Subject: Re: Needletails
From: "John Turner" <>
Date: Wed, 22 Dec 2004 08:29:00 +1030
Hi Ricki,
    I agree that Swifts must often be missed. I recall an occasion here in
the western suburbs of Adelaide a few years ago, ahead of a storm front,
when many Fork-tailed Swifts were swooping in circles fairly low over home.
I was following them with binoculars, and by chance noticed specks above
them.
These were White-throated Needletails flying quite separately from the
Fork-tails; well above them, and travelling in a near straight line towards
the north. They would certainly not have been noticed without binoculars.
    Whilst on the subject, has anybody sighted Swifts in the Adelaide area
this season yet?  I have not seen any.

Regards
John Turner
Adelaide




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