Scientific name:
Apus melba

Natural spread:
Alps

in means and Southern Europe's higher mountain-situations, eastward as far as after Turkestan and North-India, builds its nests the Alps-sailor into the niches of steep rock-walls. it sticks together feathers, grass-stalks and other easy materials, that it collects during the flight out of the air, with its saliva to flat nest-hollows to it. Also, it pulls protected Nistplätze at slanted surfaces the bald one(s), perpendicular falling away rock-hillsides before. In the Swiss Alps, also the outside-surfaces of city-houses are chosen as substitute-environment for its Nistkolonien.

Brood From end of March, the animals arrive in our widths from its winter-quarters in central-Africa. Both parents incubate the 2-3 white eggs together and create food blindly for them and bare to the world of coming boys along. They choke Speiballen on that occasion forth, in which hundred of insects like flies, gnats and brakes, spiders can have stuck together furthermore with saliva.

Hibernation In September or Octobers, the brood-birds of the Alps set off again to its hibernation-areas. The western populations move to Africa, the eastern ones to South-Arabia and South-India. End of March until in April in comes back it to its hatcheries in the Alps.

Endangering In Germany, the Alps-sailor is on the red list of the potentially endangered types of animal since it so rarely occurs here that interventions in its habitat could wipe it out quickly with us.