17 February 2010

South African Swallows...

...well actually perhaps 'our' Swallows in South Africa, but that's semantics!

We were contacted recently by ringers in Soutn Africa who have been ringing a large Swallow roost in the Durbanville area of the Cape (red marker on the map below). At last count they'd caught around 1500 birds and had 5 controls - four British and one Spanish. We'll keep the blog updated as and when they get more controls, but so far:


View South African Swallows in a larger map

Thanks to Lee Silks for keeping us up to date with the roost catches.
Posted by Mark Grantham at 16:27
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4 comments:

  1. Antonio Sandoval18 February 2010 at 20:31

    Hy!

    Where was the spainsh swallow originally ringed?

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  2. Birdringal-andalus23 February 2010 at 20:43

    Antonio, I hope it can be mine for most of 4200 that mark in 2009 ..
    Greetings. Fernando.

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  3. Bishop Monkton Birders25 February 2010 at 22:19

    Good to see a plot for our site at Bishop Monkton - Lets hope there's more to come.

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  4. Mark Grantham2 March 2010 at 10:52

    One more addition to the map is of a bird caught on 1 March which was originally ringed in Grampian in August 2008.

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