Hot Links!
Find out lots
more - just click on these logos!
The Common Swift - The European Multi-Language Website - an excellent resource
National Biodiversity Network Gateway - find out exactly where Swifts are
in the UK
Fabulous Polish Swift Web Cam site
- 4 nests under continuous observation in Szczecin
See Swifts in their nests at the famous Swift Tower at
the Oxford University Museum
My Bit of the Planet - David Jones' Swift web cam and lots more!
GBN - Dutch Swift
site; examples of Swift nest place inclusion in new & re-roofed
sites
The Woodland Trust's Seasonwatch Surveys
Click on the conkers to record your
Swifts and watch their migrations on a moving map display!
The
Dutch Swift Advice Bureau -
info on using Swift Bricks.jpg)
Building near water? Build a Sand Martin Colony and help these
lovely birds!
The
British Trust for Ornithology Bird Track- all year surveying 
Royal Society for the Protection of Birds - the UK's core avian conservation organisation
Swifts need insects - help the UK's many threatened invertebrates
with Buglife and help Swifts!
Swifts Martins & Swallows Worldwide - the Yahoo! discussion group
Jonathan
Pomroy is a wildlife artist with his own DIY Swift Colony - take
a look!.jpg)
Giant Alpine Swifts sometimes visit London, but they thrive
in Southern Europe! See them live!
Despite legal protection, wild birds are still massacred in
Italy - but you can help them!
The
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.
Korea
is draining its major wetlands and wiping out its waterbirds - you can help
protect them!
Hans Willemsen's Haarlem Swift Colony web site - one of several
in Holland - see below for more!
See Swift Chicks in the nest! Check out Peter Middlekoop's
Swift Nest Box live Webcam
Henk Haans' Dutch/English Swift website - all about Henk's personal Swift Colony
The
Marylebone Birdwatching Society - for lectures and outings to great
places, fresh air and superb birding
The Kent Ornithological Society - find out more about the
wild birds of the South East
The Green Camden Site - Well worth
watching
if you live in London
Fascinating images from Martin's colony...
North
American Tree Swallows - Great Birds! Find out all you need to know to
set up your nest boxes and get good results!
North American Chimney Swifts - different species - similar problems.jpg)
North American Vaux's Swifts - the West Coast equivalent of
the Chimney Swift and fascinating in their own right
All about Purple Martins,
one of America's great migrant birds
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