Avian squatters at the end of Europe
10,000 Birds
JUNE 16, 2024
But in south-west Europe there is a bird that kicks out the sitting tenants and takes over the nest altogether. The swifts arrive, seek the swallows out, find their nests and evict the tenants! The White-rumped Swift Apus caffer , a tropical African breeding species, was only discovered breeding in Europe in the 1960s.
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