Swallows are summer migrants from Africa to Ireland, arriving here in spring and departing in autumn. If the weather is good ...

A white-and-black, mid-sized raptor with a deeply forked tail ... bird's aerial grace as it swoops and twists over the trees 'hawking' insects," FWC says. "The kites eat all kinds of insects and ...

Due to this, the birds are now a protected species and survive by scavenging for scraps and eating small prey such as rabbits ... tipped with black as well as their long, reddish-brown, forked tails.