London's Swifts Hot Links!

Find out lots more - just click on these logos!

The Common Swift Website  The Common Swift - The European Multi-Language Website - an excellent resource

Chuck the Eco Duck helps Swifts! Chuck the Eco Duck is an exciting new programme developed to entertain, as well as educate pre-school children in caring for the  environment and each other - click to see the Swifty the Swift episode, and sit with your toddler!







NBN Gateway Link National Biodiversity Network Gateway - find out exactly where Swifts are in the UK

Fundacja Ratujmy Ptaki Fabulous Polish Swift Web Cam site - 4 nests under continuous observation in Szczecin

Woodland Trust's Seasonwatch The Woodland Trust's Seasonwatch Surveys
Click on the conkers to record your Swifts and watch their migrations on  a moving map display!



My Bit of the Planet My Bit of the Planet - David Jones' Swift web cam and lots more!

Visit the Ely Swifts Group!  See the work of the volunteers at the Ely Swifts Group - keeping Swifts flying over the Fens!

The Sand Martin Trust  Building near water? Build a Sand Martin Colony and help these lovely birds!

 Visit the Barn Owl Trust website!  Do you have just a small part of your barn, outbuilding or loft free? Make a home for Barn Owls!

 BTO Bird Track  The British Trust for Ornithology Bird Track- all year surveying

RSPB Home Page  Royal Society for the Protection of Birds - the UK's core avian conservation organisation

Buglife - the Invertebrate Conservation Trust  Swifts need insects - help the UK's many threatened invertebrates with Buglife and help Swifts!

Oxford University Museum of Natural History  See Swifts in their nests at the famous Oxford Swift Tower (Live web-cam, breeding season only)

 
 

SMS Worldwide  Swifts Martins & Swallows Worldwide - the Yahoo! discussion group

Jonathan Pomroy's DIY nestbox & Swift  Jonathan Pomroy is a wildlife artist with his own DIY Swift Colony - take a look!

See Freiburg's Alpine Swifts! Giant Alpine Swifts breed in the Alps & Southern Europe. See them on their nests! (Live web-cam, breeding season only)

Lega Italiana Protezione Uccelli  Despite legal protection, wild birds are still massacred in Italy - but you can help them!

The AirportWatch CampaignThe campaign against unsustainable airport expansion. Help control the increase in air travel and associated emissions, and help Swifts too, who are often killed by passenger aircraft.

 

Birds of Korea  Korea is draining its wetlands and wiping out its birdlife - you can help protect them!

GBN's Web Site  GBN - Dutch Swift site; examples of Swift nest place inclusion in new & re-roofed sites

Zwaluwen Advice Bureau  The Dutch Swift Advice Bureau - info on using Swift Bricks

Peter Middlekoop's Swift Nestbox Live Webcam  See Swift Chicks in the nest! Check out Peter Middlekoop's Swift Nest Box ((live web-cam, during the  breeding season only)




Henk Haan's Colony  Henk Haans' Dutch/English Swift website - all about the creation of Henk's personal Swift Colony

Kent Ornithological Society  The Kent Ornithological Society - find out more about the wild birds of the South East

Green Camden  The Green Camden Site - Well worth watching if you live in London

Martin Grund's Swift Photos  Fascinating images from Martin's colony!

North American Tree Swallow North American Tree Swallows - Great Birds! Find out all you need to know to set up your nest boxes and get good results!

Chimney Swifts in the USA!  North American Chimney Swifts - a species living in Eastern USA and Canada

Vaux's Happening  North American Vaux's Swifts - the West Coast equivalent of the Chimney Swift and fascinating in their own right

Purple Martins in the USA  All about Purple Martins, one of America's great birds, saved by a nest box campaign that started in Victorian times

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