Hot Links!
Find out lots
more - just click on these logos!
The Common Swift - The European Multi-Language Website - an excellent resource
The Woodland Trust's Seasonwatch Surveys
Click on the conkers to record your
Swifts and watch their migrations on a moving map display!
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!
See Swifts live in their nests at the famous Swift Tower at
theOxford University Museum
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!
Ebbaken Swallow Project, Nigeria.
Find out how Pierfrancesco
& Justina stop them being eaten!
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 wetlands at an ever increasing rate - you can help
protect them!
GBN - Dutch Swift
site; examples of Swift nest place inclusion in new & re-roofed
sites
The
Dutch Swift Advice Bureau -
info on using Swift Bricks
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 Scottish Ornithologists' Club
Swift Survey project - read about this vital work
Worried sick? Read this new book online, or order a copy here!
The Green Camden Site - Well worth
watching
if you live in London
The School
that has Swifts as well as Children! Have a look........
Fascinating images from Martin's colony...
North American Chimney Swifts - different species - similar problems
All about Purple Martins,
one of America's great migrant birds
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