Little Swifts, Nairobi
By Charlie • June 5, 2005 • No comments yetLittle Swifts Apus affinis
Nairobi, Kenya 02 June 2005
The following photographs were taken from the roof of the Intercontinental Hotel, Nairobi in the late afternoon as a group of about one hundred Little Swifts hawked over the centre of the city in the company of Yellow-billed Kites and Pied Crows.
The race breeding throughout much of Africa (from the Gambia across to Somalia and down to the Cape) is aerobates. The photos are in no particular groupings as it was impossible at the time to get the photos and keep a record of which swift was which - but I have tried to arrange birds with an obviously similar moult stage together in the assumption that they are likely to be the same individuals.
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Photos copyright Charlie Moores
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