I want to achieve the sprite animation of the bird with SVG . I already have written code for that it is working in Chrome, Edge, Firefox but not working on Safari (the bird is not animating).

<image  id = "bird"  href="SVG/Birds/bird_1.svg" height="250" width="500" x = "7%" y = "1%">
 <animate
      id = "birdAnim2"
      attributeName="href"
      values = "SVG/Birds/bird_1.svg;SVG/Birds/bird2.svg;SVG/Birds/bird3.svg;"
      dur="0.8s"
      begin = "indefinite"
      repeatCount="indefinite"
 />
</image>

I can see an image of the bird so I don't think xlink:href was the issue but it is not animating on Safari.