Itai,
Please send the amendment for the PALEARCTIC RED_RUMPED SWALLOW

I think people will notice it is not the first East African Red-rumped
Swallow!!!!!

Thanks
Brian

On 1/12/10, birdfinch@gmail.com <birdfinch@gmail.com> wrote:
> ----- Forwarded Message ----
> From: Brian Finch <birdfinch@gmail.com>
> To: Itai Shanni <itaisha1@yahoo.com>
> Sent: Mon, 11 January, 2010 19:17:51
> Subject: FIRST SUB-SAHARAN BLYTH’S REED WARBLER AND FIRST EAST AFRICAN
> RED-RUMPED SWALLOW, BOTH TRAPPED AT NGULIA, TSAVO WEST DECEMBER 2009.
>
> HI ITAI,
> OBVIOUSLY NO-ONE FROM NGULIA IS INTERESTED IN SHARING THE INFO........ SO
>
>
> FIRST SUB-SAHARAN BLYTH’S REED WARBLER AND FIRST EAST AFRICAN
> RED-RUMPED SWALLOW, BOTH TRAPPED AT NGULIA, TSAVO WEST DECEMBER 2009.
>
>
> Dear All,
> The news has not been released by any of the members attached to the
> Ngulia Ringing Group, and rather than wait any longer…. There was a
> Blyth’s Reed Warbler caught at Ngulia on 19th December. This bird was
> well examined (naturally) and relevant images taken. I believe it
> represents the first sub-saharan record ever and is a very exciting
> record, also of much interest at the same period they caught the first
> ever palearctic Red-rumped Swallow recorded in East Africa. The bird
> is very distinctive when compared to our local race, with a pale buff
> face, and this individual had an almost whitish rump.
> The two most exciting Kenyan migrants in 2009.
> Best to all
> Brian
>