Graham
have you looked at the Little (House) Swift - sounds close to what
you saw.
Cheers
Mike Tarburton
On 31/01/2007, at 11:17 AM, Graham Turner wrote:
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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