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Swift? Tamil Nadu, India (1 Viewer)
- Thread starter emilj_j
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Jean FRANCOIS
Well-known member
I think :
1- Little Swift
2-3- Asian Palm-swift
Jean
1- Little Swift
2-3- Asian Palm-swift
Jean
Seconded
Nutcracker
Stop Brexit!
Surely not with that massive wrap-around white rump & undertail? My first impression from the thumbnail (before opening the pic) was actually Green Sandpiper, tho' obviously a swift as soon as looking at the full size.
Isn't that its belly?
RafaelMatias
Unknown member
Yep, the rump isn't visible, just the flanks and then the undertail just becomes a blur. I'm in the Alpine Swift camp, can't really see anything not consistent with one.
Seth Miller
Well-known member
Agree with
1) Little
2-3) Asian Palm
4) Alpine
1) Little
2-3) Asian Palm
4) Alpine
Nutcracker
Stop Brexit!
Looks like the entire lower belly, undertail coverts, and at least the side of the rump; only the retrices themselves are dark to any extent. That just doesn't fit with Alpine Swift's dark undertail coverts which give it a much longer dark rear end. I just can't see an Alpine Swift there at all.
Larry Sweetland
Formerly 'Larry Wheatland'
In the last image I'm still not entirely sure that we're not seeing the top side of a bird flying away from us, with a 'white-out' from a much reduced actual white rump area, and who knows what else fooling us with colours elsewhere on the bird.:smoke:
