Sand Martin

In both the male and the female bird, the upper part is brown, while the under part is white. In addition, the Sand Martin’s plumage features a distinctive brown stripe running across the bird’s breast. In the past, the Sand Martin built its nesting holes on the natural banks of rivers. Today, it prefers to occupy sand pits, gravel pits, and loam pits, where it digs itself a nesting hole of up to one meter in length. The Sand Martin is a colony-building nesting bird, with individual colonies consisting of up to several hundred nests. Its winter habitat is in subtropical and tropical Africa. It returns to our latitudes from mid-April onward, and migrates to Africa during September.