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Sand Martin
Europese Oewerswael · Riparia riparia
A small brown martin told from the resident Brown-throated Martin by its white throat and crisp brown breast-band. It breeds in the northern hemisphere and visits Kruger only in summer, feeding low over water and reedbeds among other swallows, then departing entirely for winter.
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Small brown martin with a clean brown breast-band across a white throat, unlike the dusky Brown-throated Martin.
Where to see it in Kruger
Over water and reedbeds as a Palearctic summer visitor.
Did you know
Back in Europe it digs metre-long tunnels in sandbanks to nest in big colonies.
Often confused with
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