These fantastic summer visitors are beginning to swoop through our skies once more – Swift season has arrived. Celebrate and learn how to better protect these aerial acrobats during Swift Awareness Week, taking place from Saturday 29 June until Sunday 7 July. Swift-themed walks, talks and events are being hosted throughout this week. Find your nearest Swift event: Swift Awareness Week calendar.
Swift. Illustration: Mike Langman (rspb-images.com)
How communities, developers and authorities can support Swifts by installing nest bricks and boxes. Video: the RSPB
You can also help to contribute to this species’ conservation by recording low-flying Swifts at roof height and nest sites on Swift Mapper, an app and website developed by the RSPB and partners.
Spending their winters in Africa, Swifts migrate 3,400 miles twice a year, stopping off to refuel in places like Portugal and France along the way. Watch a typical Swift’s journey. Video: the RSPB
