Local Swift Groups

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 ________________________________________________________________________________________   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 Action for Swifts - East Anglia Aldeburgh's Amazing Swifts Aylsham, Norfolk, Swift Group Baildon Swift Group (nr Bradford) Banstead Swift Protection Assn. Barnet & Enfield Swifts Group Bedfordshire Swift Group Belgium Brent & Westminster Swifts Group Bromley (Kent) Swift Group Bolton & Bury Swift Group Bradford on Avon Swift Group Brighton & Hove RSPB Swift Group Bristol Swifts Group Bromley (Kent) Swift Group Brussels & Wallonia GTM Brockley (S'th London) Swift Group Burton in Kendal (Cumbria) Caistor Swift Group (Lincolnshire) Camden Swift Group (London) Cherwell (Oxfordshire) Swift Group Chirk (North Wales) Swift Group Cirencester Swift Group Cumbria: Sedbergh & District Cumbria (West) Swift Group Darlington Swifts Denmark Swifts Project Dublin Swift Group Dunblane Wildlife (Scotland) Framlingham Swift Group (Suffolk) Frankfurt Swift Group Frimley Green Swifts (Surrey) Fulbourn (Cambs) Swift Group  Glamorgan Swift Group Grimsby Area Swift Project (GASP) Guildford, Surrey - Swift 2 Save Swifts Hackney Swift Group (East London) Hampshire Swifts Hannover Swift Group Hastings & Rother Swift Group Hertford Swift Group, Hertfordshire Hertfordshire - Swifts in Pirton Huntly Swift Group, Aberdeenshire Islington Swifts Group (North London) Keswick Swifts Group, Cumbria Kettlethorpe Nature Action Group (KNAG) Leeds Swifts Group Les Martinets d'Amboise Les Martinets de Toulon Lewes Swift Supporters Lewisham (South London) Swifts Ludlow  & Shropshire Swift Group Lune Valley Swift Group (Lancs) Maidenhead, Marlow & Cookham Majorca - SEO Swift Advice Save Three Rivers Swifts, Herts High Weald Swifts, Kent Milton Keynes Swift Group Morpeth Swifts Group New Bradwell Swifts & Martins Newport Pagnell Swifts & Martins Northern Ireland Swift Group Oswestry (Shropshire) Swift Project Penrith Swift Group (Cumbria) Pirton - Swifts in Pirton (Hertfordshire) Reigate (Surrey) Swift Protection Group Salisbury & Wilton Swifts Scarborough Swift Group Shaftesbury Swift Group Seaford Swift Group (East Sussex) Shamley Green (Surrey) Swift Project Sheffield & Rotherham Swift Group Sheffield Swift Network S2 Swifts (Sheffield) & Facebook S13 Swifts (Sheffield) Whiston Swifts (Sheffield S60) Somerset - Taunton Dean Swifts South Cumbria Swifts South Gloucestershire - Wickwar Action Group Stony Stratford Swifts & Martins Stroud (Gloucestershire) Swift Group Swanage (Dorset) Swifts Tayside Swift Group Totley Swift Group (Sheffield) Trieste Swift Group Usk (Wales) - Swifts of Usk Wakefield (Yorkshire) Swift Group Walmer & Deal Action for Swifts, Kent Wandsworth Park Swifts (SW London) Ware Swifts (Hertfordshire) Wigan Swifts Wiltshire (North) Swift Group Winchcombe Swift Support Group Woking (Surrey) Swift Group Wolverton's Swifts & Martins Group Worthing & Adur Swift Group Wyre Forest Swift Friends (Worcs) Click on a Name to e-mail   Usa questo link per trovare il vostro Gruppo Rondoni più vicino in Italia 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 Back to Swift Conservation Home Page         Back to Local Help & Assistance          Back to Contents