From: "Graham Turner" <>
Subject: unidentified swift NSW south coast
Hi Graham,
In my limited experience Fork-tailed Swifts do not always open their tails,
when they do they are un-mistakable but when they don't they appear as slim,
sickle winged swifts with their streamlined body tapering to a fine tail. At
least that's my take.
I get the impression that they may be more coastal this year?
Bruce Cox.
> 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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