Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Swift populations in the UK have been declining [JP Cornuet] The first swifts have nested in boxes installed at a University of ...

Inmates at Dumfries prison have been building bird nesting boxes to help bolster the population of common swifts in the region. It is part of the Save our Swifts campaign which is being launched by ...

Swifts need two things. Safe, dry, nest holes high up on walls and lots of flying insects to eat—but both are in decreasing supply. Studies show that these bricks work. Swifts are attracted to them ...

The number of nest boxes used by an endangered bird to breed has increased in the past year, according to the Suffolk Bird Group. The number of swifts using nesting boxes in Suffolk has risen from 263 ...

The first swifts have nested in boxes installed at a University of Cambridge college which is hoping to help stem the decline of the birds and a lack of natural nesting sites. Swifts are endangered, ...