Swallows and swifts on their annual flight from Africa to Europe have been found dead across GreeceHigh winds kill thousands of migrating birds in 'disaster' over GreeceThousands of swallows and swifts migrating from Africa to Europe have been left dead by high winds battering Greece, bird watchers say. “It’s a major disaster,” Maria Ganoti of the wildlife protection group Anima told AFP on Thursday. The Greek ornithologist association said: “The night of April 5-6 was disastrous for migrating birds due to strong winds, low temperatures and rain in some regions. “Southerly winds pushed flocks of birds from north Africa into air currents from the north of the Aegean sea and particularly the islands. Greece is on the flight path for hundreds of thousands of birds which migrate north in spring and south in autumn.

Source: The North Africa Journal April 09, 2020 17:26 UTC