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Martin Identification

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Subject: Martin Identification
From: L&L Knight <>
Date: Sat, 17 May 2008 14:38:19 +1000
In flight, look at the tail. Swallows have deeply forked tails [hence the term swallow tail] while martins have little forking.

Tree martins have grey heads, while Fairy martins have brown heads.

Regards, Laurie.

On 17/05/2008, at 12:57 PM,  wrote:


Hi everyone,

for a while now, I have been having trouble identifying between Welcome Swallow's, Fairy and Tree Martins. Can someone please help me out?

Max.
Sydney...
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