Take-Off! A
Swift leaves its nest box in Denmark - our fastest bird in level
flight!
Photo
© Inger Lund
Though Swifts only spend 3 or 4 months each Summer with us, while they are here they bring
spectacular
aerial action and excitement to our urban lives! Swifts breed from
Ireland to Beijing, from the Mediterranean and the Middle East
right up to the Arctic, but sad to say, everywhere they are in decline.
But you can help them, and you can do it personally, all on your own,
or with the help of a few friends and neighbours, and if you can do
D I Y, it will cost you very little indeed.
Read on!
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They're over
the Congo!
Our
Swifts left us at the end of Summer to head South. A couple of days flight took
them over Spain, then they flew down the coast over Morocco and Mali and then through West
Africa to reach the Congo in
September, where they spend most of the Winter, except for a period over Christmas over Malawi and Mozambique, East Africa.
Swifts have shared our buildings ever since the Romans
came to Britain. They still breed in our eaves and gables, but won't be for
much longer, as modern and renovated buildings exclude them. Tragically, we have
lost over half of our Swifts in just the past 25 years.
Unless we help them, Swifts will vanish from the UK. Find out here all
about these amazing birds, why they matter, and how you can help them.
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