Wire-tailed Swallow with mud pellet

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SKU NGAF17410 Categories African Birds, Wildlife Tags 4 chambered heart, aerodynamics, alula, animal, animals, Aves, Avian, behaviour, birdwatching, breeding, bristle, bristles, building, commensural, contour feathers, cup nest, cup shaped nest, display, down, feathers, filaments, hawking, Hirundinidae, Hirundo smithii, insectivore, intra-African migrant, keratin, living dinosaur, mud pellets, mud-pellet, Nature, nest building, ornithology, Oscines, Passeriformes, passerine, Plumage, primary, quill, rectrices, rictal, Safari, scales, secondary, Selous Game Reserve, shaft, Tail, Tanzania Africa, territorial, tourism, Travel, Vertebrate, warm blooded, water, wild animals, wildlife, wildlife habitat, wildlife images, wildlife photography, wildlife photos, wildlife pictures, Wire-tailed Swallow

Description

Found along all major water-courses the Wire-tailed Swallow is resident and they make the mud cup nest in sheltered overhangs close to the river. The cups are built labouriously from individual beakfulls of mud

Photographer: Nick Greaves