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https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/39300| Title: | House martins on migration sheltering from the rain |
| Authors: | Azzopardi, John Bonett, Guido |
| Keywords: | Birds -- Malta Bird watching -- Malta House martin -- Behavior -- Malta Delichon Passeriformes Swallows |
| Issue Date: | 1980 |
| Publisher: | Malta Ornithological Society |
| Citation: | Azzopardi, J., & Bonett, G. (1980). House martins on migration sheltering from the rain. Il-Merill, 20, 26. |
| Abstract: | While bird-watching at Xlendi Bay in Gozo on 1st April 1979 we witnessed an unusual behaviour. It was a cold day, the sky was heavily overcast and it was drizzling all the time. Then, under the cornice on the top floor of a two storey house still under construction, we saw a flock of about 120 House Martins Delichon urbica clinging with their feet to the vertical wall, huddled together and sheltering from the rain. |
| URI: | https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar//handle/123456789/39300 |
| Appears in Collections: | Il-Merill : issue 20 : 1979 Il-Merill : issue 20 : 1979 |
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