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  • Members: 146
  • Category: Ecology
  • Founded: Feb 24, 2008
  • Language: English
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The UK-SWIFTS PROJECT was created in early 2008 in an attempt to start building a database of all known Common Swift (Apus Apus) breeding sites in the United Kingdom in order that they may be protected. It has been such a resounding success that the operation of the database was taken over by the RSPB in May 2009.

What's the problem, and how can you help?
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You don't have to be a bird enthusiast to help reverse the alarming decline in the Swift population of the UK, which has seen their numbers crash by 50% in the last seven years. If action is not taken soon, Swifts could disappear from our summer skies forever.

It is widely believed that the demolition and/or renovation of the ageing human housing stock has deprived Swifts of many of their traditional breeding sites, and that this is the main cause of the population crash. However, the locations of successful colony sites are currently known only to local residents - if at all.

Please share your knowledge of probable Swift breeding colony locations by going to: http//www.rspb.org.uk/thingstodo/surveys/swifts/index.asp

Please join UK-Swifts to show your support, and use the message forum to share ideas about ways we can all help Swifts. Feel free to use any of the documents from this site and please spread the word about the RSPB's Swift Inventory Project as widely as possible.


Home page photo courtesy of Steve Bennett.
"Their flight is full of joy and their swiftness is breathtaking." Poet, Shira Twersky-Kassel




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Article about Swifts from the Financial Times is attached
Nice to see, yet another good article about swifts and their plight! OK, I know there are a few errors, but it's still great to see! All the best, Edward
Posted - Mon Jun 29, 2009 5:17 pm
Edward Mayer
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Thank you Edward. May I suggest that all members visit Edward's "Swift Conservation" website, which was one of the sources of the advice to be found in this
Posted - Sat Jun 27, 2009 9:07 am
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Yes, it's been great! It's all down to us UK Swift enthusiasts getting through to the RSPB and getting them behind our mission. The thing is, we now have to
Posted - Sat Jun 27, 2009 8:31 am
Edward Mayer
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Volunteers wanted to count Swifts near Cambridge on Friday July 10th
Dear Swift Friends, Rob Mungovan of South Cambridgeshire District Council is running a Swift Survey Evening at Fulbourne, on Friday July 10th. The old housing
Posted - Fri Jun 26, 2009 11:58 am
Edward Mayer
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Good essay in the Daily Mail here<http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1194852/A-swift-exit-They-symbol-English-summer-swifts-vanishing-skies.html>
Posted - Fri Jun 26, 2009 9:07 am
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