Show Navigation

Image 1 of 1

127176.jpg

Add to Lightbox Download
Sand Martin Riparia riparia L 12cm. Typically seen hawking for insects over water, sometimes even picking them off surface. Sexes are similar. Adult has sandy brown upperparts and mainly white underparts with brown breast band. Tail is short and forked. Juvenile is similar but has pale margins to back feathers. Voice Utters range of rasping twitters. Status Widespread summer visitor. Nests colonially, excavating burrows in sandy banks beside rivers and sand and gravel quarries.
Copyright
© PAUL STERRY/Nature Photographers
Image Size
2600x3543 / 8.7MB
www.naturephotographers.co.uk
Contained in galleries
BIRDS
Sand Martin Riparia riparia L 12cm. Typically seen hawking for insects over water, sometimes even picking them off surface. Sexes are similar. Adult has sandy brown upperparts and mainly white underparts with brown breast band. Tail is short and forked. Juvenile is similar but has pale margins to back feathers. Voice Utters range of rasping twitters. Status Widespread summer visitor. Nests colonially, excavating burrows in sandy banks beside rivers and sand and gravel quarries.