Swift Departures
10,000 Birds
JULY 26, 2024
One tagged individual spent 15 days in Liberia, before flying 5,000km in five days to reach its nesting site in southern England. Lack could only surmise where his Swifts wintered, but thanks to the use of geolocators we now know that British-breeding birds migrate to the Congo, before moving east to Mozambique.
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