That's not my problem - swifts are duller, larger, narrower in the wing. I'll not try and describe them at the moment (cooking dinner). However, I find the bigger difficulty separating house martins from swallows - easy if you can get a frontal or overhead view
but that's not how it works when you're trying to identify hirundines
contre la jour - just have to go by the shape and the critical point (of course) is the swallow-tail ......
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Originally Posted by goosey
Ok - a bit of a stupid question. I get confused between swifts and swallows. During the summer months I see some birds flying in circles over our immediate area screeching then getting lower and lower as the evening wears on, then they dissapear for the night. Are these more likely to be swifts or swallows? last year I noted their return on the 25th April and said on my website they were swifts - now I have a nagging doubt that they are actually swallows.
I haven't seen any this year yet.
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