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Wednesday, April 27, 2016

Greater-striped Swallows

The Greater-striped Swallow is a locally common breeding intra-African migrant, present July/ August until May. 

This past weekend was the first time (this year) that I've managed to capture these pretty birds.



The Greater-striped Swallow is larger in size than the Lesser-striped Swallow (not found in my part of South Africa) and more finely striped below than the Lesser-Striped Swallow



I'm linking to Wild Bird Wednesday here

9 comments:

  1. Lovely photos and always good when you manage to photograph a bird first time. Hope you are well Diane

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  2. Hello, Jo! Pretty shots of your Swallow. They are sweet birds, I love all the swallows. It seems there are so many varieties of swallows in the world. Enjoy your day and week ahead!

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  3. so cute..fluffed out like that they are adorable...

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  4. Very nice looking bird - and so useful that the larger one is actually the larger one!!

    Cheers - Stewart M - Melbourne

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  5. Oh that's a new bird to me. Very nice too.

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  6. Thank you for sharing these birds. I know very little about South African birds. I want to visit this beautiful country one day:)

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