Contributor
Josep del Hoyo Media from this contributor Profile
Date
Location
Gamadji Saré (swift colony)
Saint-Louis, Senegal
Media from this location Illustrated Checklist- Age
- Not specified
- Sex
- Not specified
- Behaviors
- Flying
- Tags
- Nest
Media notes
A bird flying in front of a mixed breeding colony with Little Swifts. Note the shallowly forked tail of this Horus Swift.
Observation details
There is a known mixed colony of Little and Horus Swifts in a sandbank of a Senegal river channel, just below the village of Gamadji Saré. Horus Swifts have swallowly forked tails while Little Swifts have square-tipped tails. See attached photo and video.
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