Join a successful group
helping Swifts near you
Check
below and see if there is a Swift group near you; they
can help you in setting up a Swift colony or persuading
your local government, church or school, or housing
estate, to help Swifts, as well as in studying Swifts,
and you can help them too!
Some
of these groups have been running for years, and
have an amazingly successful track record; others have
just started up. All have access to the latest information.
Regardless of region, they should be happy to give you
advice and contacts.
Click
on the name of the Group to make contact
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The
illustrations below: Swifts have been studied since at
least Pliny's times; on the left is Ferdinand Frisch's 18th
Century etching of a Swift & a House Martin. Some Swift Groups can
help you help House Martins too! Further below:
Kirkman's painting of two Swifts over a thatched cottage, and below
that a portrait of two Swifts, possibly Alpine Swifts, by an unknown
artist*, then another old watercolour of a Swift in a nest hole in an
old building, artist unknown, then finally, two young Swifts in a DIY
nestbox** by Ulrich Tigges
* from "Vorstellung der Vögel Deutschlandes und beylaüfig auch einiger Fremden"
1763 : ** Copyright
© Ulrich Tigges
Swift
Groups by Name, Town, County and Country - Click
on the name of the Group to e-mail
Above:
Three ways to house Swifts: clear straightforward designs
by Action
for Swifts for use by roofers and builders;
they can help you too with designs for your Swift project Copyright
© Dick Newell
Below:
Designed for the site; Swift nest boxes
for individual sites designed by (left) Mike Osborne
& (centre & right) Dick Newell
of Action
for Swifts
here shown with a box at Worlington Church Copyright
© Mike Osborne & Dick Newell
Setting up a new Swift Group
If you would like your Swift
group listed on our web site, let us know via this
e-mail link new-swift-group-contact
and we will be in touch with you!
Below: Swift
nest box system designed by Swift Conservation for the
Fulbourne Village Project, Cambs, twin nestboxes made
from an old Claret crate, and twin Swift nest places
created inside a restored gutter box by
the Brussels Swift Group Copyright
© Dick Newell, Edward Mayer and Martine Wauters
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