Friday, December 23, 2016

ASIAN HOUSE MARTIN

Photographed on Christmas Island, December 2016
953             ASIAN HOUSE MARTIN              Delichon dasypus

AUSTRALIA (Christmas Island)                  682

There are three subspecies, all breed in the Himalayas and in central and eastern Asia, and winter lower in the mountains or southeast Asia. Migratory.

One of the first records of this bird in Australian territory.




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