Hello fellow birders.
I am grateful to Michael for raising questions about Spanish Sparrow. I too
have been in Sicily, in Pozzallo, near to Ragusa and Siracusa in the last few
weeks and was perplexed by the sparrows I was seeing as so much seemed
different from the Australian sparrows I am familiar with. And yet the online
field guides (some are a bit useless) I referred to shed no light.
It has given me considerable pleasure reading the erudite feedback given by
Nicholas and others and shows that sharing what one might consider ordinary
sightings is valuable.
I too spent ages looking at the ever present swifts and from the guides it
seemed they were described as the Common Swift Apus apus. Rob Morris's
comment about the possibility of some being Pallid Swifts I found very
interesting.
Best wishes,
Patrick Scully
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