kim_harding ✅Sep 7, 2024

Anyone noticed that the swallows gathering? It is really mind-blowing when you realise what they are about to do...

Correction: The image turns out to be the migration of Barn Swallows (Hirundo rustica) and not Swifts (Apus apus) as I had been led to believe. The source is the Eurasian African Bird Migration Atlas https://migrationatlas.org/node/1843

Bird Migration Atlas

This online Migration Atlas covers the huge geographical area represented by two continents, encompassing the flyways between Eurasia and Africa. Movements in time and space of 300 bird species are mapped and analysed drawing on data gathered by European Ringing Schemes over more than a century and collated by the EURING databank.

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@kim_harding

So Scottish swallows have a second nest in South Africa?

Wow.
I wonder if they lay eggs twice a year.

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@CelloMomOnCars An error on my part, the map is for Barn Swallows (Hirundo rustica), so probably not
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@kim_harding

Thanks for the correction.
Still, SOME bird flies from the UK to SA!
Just boggles the mind.

Sep 7, 2024 at 10:48pmWeb