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This is a Swift. sometimes they can end up on the ground. This is where they need YOUR help!
Swifts arrive back to the UK from April/May to nest. 🪺 (A THREAD)
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BREAKING SWIFT NEWS. ❗️😬
Yesterday 30,000 swifts have been recorded heading to us from the south of France 🇫🇷
There should be a spike in sightings in the next 3-5 days!!!
If your swifts aren’t back yet, get ready it’s the last leg of there big journey
#swiftsbigmigration
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❗ What to do when finding a grounded swift THREAD❗RETWEET
If you find a grounded swift, please never throw the bird in the air or hold them out the window.
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People are currently outside Shrewsbury ambulance site, as they are about to remove nesting swallows from a active nest, after a licence has been granted, just weeks before they will fledge..
#StopNatureCrime
#SaveOurSwallows
@swallowspotting
@ChrisGPackham
@IoloWilliams2
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@ChrisGPackham
@IoloWilliams2
can you join me In thanking the people protesting and successfully stopping the removal of swallow nests at Shrewsbury ambulance station THEY ARE HEROS 🐦👏
The swallows are now safe for the rest of the season, thanks to them!! (I take no credit)
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GROUNDED SWIFT THREAD! MYTHS BUSTED! 😃
People believe that swifts can not take off from the ground, they do find this difficult but a healthy bird should be able to, under no circumstance should they be thrown up into the air 📸 Alison Ingram 1/4
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SUCCESS!! 🥳
After advice from the Police, Cuan, the Pest Control operatives and pressure from the wonderfully kind paramedic team, the Swallows are SAFE for the rest of the season.
They will be making changes over winter, but no lives will be lost here today!!
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What to do if you find a grounded swift: ✅
DON’T THROW IT IN THE AIR, DON’T FEED IT AND DON’T DELAY!
If you find any swift PLEASE CONTACT A SWIFT CARER:
Or contact swift sos, for help and advice on finding a swift:
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🕷 🐛 Please do not feed the bird at all no matter how much it begs. Grounded swifts are generally dehydrated and emaciated and can die if they are fed in this condition. Under no circumstances must you feed meat, mealworms or seed. A swift is an entirely insectivorous bird. ❌
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URGENT 🚨 At 10 am tomorrow, Pest Control contractors will be at Shrewsbury Ambulance Station to remove nesting Swallows. WMAS have taken no professional advice. Somehow (???) this barbaric act is being done under a license from Natural England 1/2
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Place the swift in a deep plastic container, or a shoe box, with a folded tea towel and make sure it is well ventilated. & wait for a swift carer to help
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3️⃣ Urgently contact your local swift carer:
Find your local specialist rehabber here, Swift Conservation website:
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2️⃣ REHYDRATE carefully by placing a damp cotton wool bud to the side of the swift's beak. Take care to avoid the nostrils and don’t try to open the beak.. as it breaks easily. ✅
DONT drop water directly in mouth ‼️
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NEVER 'throw or launch' a grounded swift in the air. ❌ ✋
a swift on the ground is usually a swift that needs specialist help. Never release a bird without consulting a specialist carer/rehabber. But healthy swifts can take off from a palm of a flat hand!
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Did you know? YOU can create a home for a
#Swift
this
#WorldSwiftDay
Install a swift nest box, or even better a nest brick, to save a species that’s declining 🐦💙
🎶 Don’t forget to play swift calls to attract swifts to the nestboxes
📸
@BirdingDad
& Robert booth
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As a first aid measure. take a cotton wool bud and soak it in water. Try to squeeze a small amount of water into the side of its beak to help rehydrate it ✅
Please do not put a swift in a cage. A grounded swift is unable to fly and a cage will irreparably damage its feathers ❌
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I know of lots of times when the bird has been thrown and dropped straight back to the ground and had the most awful painful death or the swift had to be put to sleep.
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Alternatively, contact ‘SWIFT SOS’ on Facebook to help you find a rehabber local to you. They also have a list of taxi volunteers to transport birds.
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1️⃣ Bring the swift indoors. House it in a deep plastic container or a ventilated cardboard box or shoebox, lined with a folded tea towel or tissue. Keep the swift in a quiet room. ✅ (the bird will not fly)
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DO NOT FEED. 🐛❌
No matter how much it begs, grounded swifts are commonly dehydrated and/or emaciated and can die in this condition.
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‼️NEVER try and take care of a swift yourself. Swifts need specialist diet and supplements. They also sometimes require force feeding and their beaks can be damaged easily.
Without the right diet they can also have feather issues and can be in a bad state. find your local carer
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NEVER RELEASE FROM HEIGHT. ❌ 🪟
Eg. From a Window, It’s likely that the grounded swift is too weak or cannot fly, and this can injure it more and can be fatal
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At 10 am tomorrow, Pest Control contractors will be at Shrewsbury Ambulance Station to remove nesting Swallows. WMAS have taken no professional advice. Some
People who can, are intending to be outside the ambulance station from 8am.
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SUCCESS!! 🥳
After advice from the Police, Cuan, the Pest Control operatives and pressure from the wonderfully kind paramedic team, the Swallows are SAFE for the rest of the season.
They will be making changes over winter, but no lives will be lost here today!!
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Swift bricks blocked by
@RishiSunak
Let him know how wrong this decision is.
Rishi Sunak
10 Downing Street,
London SW1A 2AA
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Today is
#WorldSwiftDay
let’s get this hashtag trending, share your photos and videos
#Swifts
#Apusapus
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They said they are putting nestboxes up- SWALLOWS DO NOT NEST IN NESTBOXES!!
This nest site has been active for 7 years.
A simple solution is to install boards under the nest sites to catch the droppings.
AND wait for the young to fledge.
#SaveShrewsburyAmbulanceSwallows
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UPDATE: however the Wildlife Crime Officer and the local paramedics are pushing for them to wait and allow them to stay for the rest of the season. If this cannot be achieved, any chicks will go to Cuan Wildlife Rescue. 2/2
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SUCCESS!! 🥳
After advice from the Police, Cuan, the Pest Control operatives and pressure from the wonderfully kind paramedic team, the Swallows are SAFE for the rest of the season.
They will be making changes over winter, but no lives will be lost here today!! 💙💙
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The Wildlife Crime Officer was also very supportive, as are the paramedics who love their Swallows. The license allows the pest control operatives to cull all of the birds and destroy the nests, however this didn’t happen THANKS TO THEM👏
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It’s been a busy week for sightings, welcome back swifts 💙
Has ‘yours’ arrived back yet?
#ApusApus
#Swifts
#Bird
#Soundofsummer
@Natures_Voice
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UPDATE: 1/2
There is a meeting underway. The Wildlife Crime Officer is very supportive, as are the paramedics who love their Swallows. The decision has been made higher up. The license allows the pest control operatives to cull all of the birds and destroy the nests,
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Please if you find a grounded swift and it’s Healthy hold them in the the palm of your hands at a flat open area (do not throw in air) if thrown or launched this can cause injuries, also do not throw or hold swifts out of window. If the swift is ready it will fly off. If not 2/4
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What to do when finding a grounded swift thread.
Please retweet thank you.
❗ What to do when finding a grounded swift THREAD❗RETWEET
If you find a grounded swift, please never throw the bird in the air or hold them out the window.
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Instead put the bird into a box with a towel and do not attempt to feed it your self they are very difficult birds to care for and need to re hydrated properly before feeding, PLEASE CALL A SWIFT CARER you can view the full list here 📸 Chet Cunago 3/4
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Fly strong Mavis!
Mavis, hasta luego mi amiga. Never hear thunder, always be sky.
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Swift chicks are dropping in the heatwave. Please follow thread and seek help ASAP
❗ What to do when finding a grounded swift THREAD❗RETWEET
If you find a grounded swift, please never throw the bird in the air or hold them out the window.
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Please give the 'Swift brick mandate' the green light
@michaelgove
, there couldn't be a simpler way to save red listed species from extinction - how often do we get to say that?
Huge thanks to
@WriterHannahBT
and
@ZacGoldsmith
for never giving up
Absurd that Hannah has had to campaign so hard for something all the scientists agree on, most people would welcome & even the householders are willing to accept. Hoping for a green light in the next week or two from
@michaelgove
I know he gets it 🤞🤞🤞🤞🤞
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If you need advice or help on finding a swift carer head over to the ‘swift sos’ Facebook group 4/4
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by
#AllThingsSwiftsUK
on Facebook! Tweet us your sightings, photos and videos! tag us
@Ukswiftsighting
or use the hashtag
#SwiftSpotted
or
#UkSwifts
and we will retweet! (Sorry to make another account lost the password to old account) Photo credit: Simon Richardson
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A swift thread by
@swifts_uk
Please Read and retweet 👍
In just 20 years, more than half of our swifts have vanished and we believe that the loss of nest sites in the roofs (cracks) of buildings is at least partly responsible. 1/10
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Make sure to download the
#SwiftMapper
app to report sightings/Screaming parties (rooftop height level) and nest sites!
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@michaelgove
. There are at least 110,000 UK citizens who will never forgive you if you allow swifts to become extinct on your watch. Their future was in your hands...
'...then
@michaelgove
went silent & has refused to engage since. Now the future of this iconic species rests in one man’s hands. His hands. And I fear he is willing to let them go. It is unforgivable. After all his work, will this sordid chapter be his legacy?' -
@ZacGoldsmith
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Just listen to the emotional release by
@ChetCunago
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The months of dedication, love and care our rehabbers give to get these precious swifts back into the wild is incredible. Thank you, all of you.
As I release precious, abandoned swift chick Bob, I can't help but wonder at the enormity of these few seconds, and the magnitude of his journey ahead.
From a small dark box - to our atmosphere..
Scream forever into the blue my darling...
The world is yours now
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Please retweet! 🐦
❗ What to do when finding a grounded swift THREAD❗RETWEET
If you find a grounded swift, please never throw the bird in the air or hold them out the window.
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@WaterWaysProtct
Incorrect advice… many swifts that are on the ground are in fact injured, exhausted or young swifts that will not fly, always consult with a swift carer before attempting to release.. and healthy adult swifts can take off from the ground. Carer List here:
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Fabulous reaction. We understand the joy.
This video is 3 years in the making, I can't actually believe what I'm looking at right here!!!
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Superb Tony Collins.!
Hastings Independent - 11/08/2023
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How amazing is this?!
@Natures_Voice
@bandbswifts
💙
Introducing: Mart the Swift 😍
He's just landed back in the UK.
Over the years, Mart has raised 18 chicks, endured heavy rain, heatwaves, multiple takeover attempts & a visit from a curious bat.
This year, we've popped a shiny new camera into his swift box 👇
#SwiftStories
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Sadly blocked swift nest reports are already reaching us. If negotiations fail, report it.
It is ILLEGAL to block access to an active nest.
@WriterHannahBT
@HampshireSwifts
@swiftsweek
@SoSSwifts
📳 Is scaffolding blocking access to a known swift nesting site?
📳 THE LAW IS ON YOUR SIDE
📳 Film it. Note the exact location (OS grid ref/W3W)
📳 Ring 101 and ask to speak to a Wildlife Crime Officer
📳 Ask for an incident number so it's logged
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🚨 BREAKING SWIFT NEWS 🚨
They are coming to us!
11993 Swifts counted in falaise de leucate.
SOUTH OF FRANCE 🇫🇷
They usually feed up there before heading to us! 😬
Also it’s WAY more swifts than the same time as last year 🤔!!
Track swifts here:
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This is the sound of a dreaming swiftlet.
Don't let it become lost to future generations.
We're at 80K signatures we NEED 100K BY APRIL 30TH
Get EVERYONE you know to sign and share. (kids too!)
(Hand reared swift
@ChetCunago
)
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Stunning swift fledging captures
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Sporadic sighting across the country, can only mean one thing... Our swifts are on their way 😍
There's still time to provide a nesting opportunity for our nest faithfull iconing screamers 🙏
Time is running out for swifts, as nests are destroyed on an industrial scale
But it's not too late to provide a desperately needed nest space for the next generation
Find out how 👇
🏠 Make space in your soffits
🏠 Stick in a swift brick
🏠 Pop up a box
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Article says they will install bird boxes!!! SWALLOWS DO NOT USE BIRD BOXES!!
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Create a home for swifts
Swift will be arriving in the next few months and you can help by creating them a home to return back to
✅ See amazing air displays on summer evenings
✅ They will return every year from Africa
✅ They are very tidy
Photo credit: Simon Richardson
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Oh this is just gorgeous. Fab work
@ChetCunago
and some great resources and ideas on the
@SheffSwiftNet
website
Final swift chick Crossy's emotional release, by our
@SheffSwiftNet
member
@ChetCunago
Check out our our YouTube channel, and understand why it's vital for us all to do what we can to save this glorious species from extinction.
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Hoorah! Mart and Martha II have eggs! Follow their journey
Mart & Martha II are eggspecting! 🥚
With three eggs in the nest, this loved up pair are taking this season in their stride. 👇
#SwiftStories
x
@bandbswifts
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Scaffolding erected on Sheffield house with 6 nests, was taken down 24 hours later thanks to SUPERB intervention by
@AimeeAmbrose
, Laura
@S6swifts
& everyone behind the scenes.
Highlights the need for vigilance, surveying and action.
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Stunning shot of the best beast in our atmosphere.
Swifts are back and what a show they put on!
#apusapus
#martinetnoir
#birding
#birdwatching
#birdphotography
#birdlife
#TwitterNatureCommunity
#BBCWildlifePOTD
#naturelovers
@SonyAlpha
#twitterbirds
#birdpics
#bealpha
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@JaneJanehomer
Also never release swifts on high walls, this is super dangerous for them, when swifts are ready they would take off themselves, from the palm of a hand at a flat and open area
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Fly safe little ones.
A very sad day yesterday “my birds” have gone, left within 30 seconds of each other to begin their remarkable and epic journey , taking an almost identical flight path directly south. Safe journey you beauties & see you soon 🤞
@swifts_uk
@Natures_Voice
@ChetCunago
@ThePhotoHour
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LOG YOUR SWIFT NESTS/INFO THREAD! PLEASE RETWEET
Its Really imporant to enter all the swift data as its all super important for RSPB, BTO and swift groups to see this information.
BTO take data from previous dates, so even if you have old swift data make sure to add it!
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AMAZING!
O.M.G!!!! Blink and you'll miss it - but there are
#Swifts
checking out my
#Swift
boxes!! (Calls you can here are my call system telling them where to look). SO excited 😊
@heyjooode
@DomSpracklen
@GTAlstonWader
@AceSettle
@JohnDayRSPB
@NigelSymes
@Natures_Voice
#Settleswifts
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Gorgeous new swift film by
@Natures_Voice
.
Featuring contributions from our amazing national swift community and lots of hard work by
@LaurindaLuffman
, it's a triumph.
Give nature a home.
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Absolutely superb. Swift bricks are the way forward.
The housing development will have around a 100 S-Bricks grouped high up on gables, the gables are grouped together too. The locations are selected where there is a clear line of flight for Swifts to access/egress the S-Bricks.
Here are the first ones going in
@FionaJudge1
!
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Shrewsbury Ambulance Station, they nest in the garage. Natural England have authorized a license to remove/cull due to risk of contamination. Which, we are informed, is minimal!! Thankfully the young will be taken to a rescue- discussions still ongoing
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SHARE YOUR SWIFT DATA THREAD!
@_BTO
@Natures_Voice
Please register your important swift data if you have nesting swifts in your area, nestboxes/ screaming parties.
📸 Simon Richardson
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@RobertEFuller
Hi Robert. You're a well respected and brilliant wildlife champion.
The Swift care community are desperate to put an end to the outdated & dangerous practice of throwing swifts. Is there any chance you could consider removing the tweet so as not to encourage others to emulate.
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The all important 'Mandate Swift Bricks' debate can be watched here 4.30pm Monday 10th July.
The debate won’t win or lose- It’s what minister says at the end which is key as it will show whether there is support 🤞
#SwiftBricksForSwiftChicks
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Well done people of Sheffield. Next step, compulsory Swift Bricks in new developments.
@SaveourSwifts
@swiftsweek
@AfSwifts
4 Swift groups alone have created 450-500 potential new
#Swift
nest sites across Sheffield in just 8 months.
We CAN save this species.
We MUST save this species.
Calling all birders set up a Swift group in your area. We'll help! Covered so far S6, S11, S7, S17, S8
@shefbirdstudy
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This is why we never release swifts from height! Most swifts are dehydrated and weak. Never release them from height as they can fall and injure themselves more!
@swifts_uk
I found once a poor thing, I let it fly from the second floor, but it did not help, it just landed down, so I took it to a vet, he found it dehydrated and upon parasites. Hopefully, they helped.
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What a thread. A heartfelt plea for swift bricks by rehabber
@ChetCunago
.
Swift rehabbers witness at first hand, the results of blocked nests. As
@WriterHannahBT
said. We need year round nest protection for our nest faithful swifts
Swift rehabber
@ChetCunago
in her 3rd season of caring for swifts gravely injured due to trying to get in to their blocked homes. With no protection of nesting habitat all year round site loyal swifts are making EPIC migrations only to die on arrival. The govt needs to help them
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How swifts and swallows connect us to the seasons — and our communities
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@Kate_Bradbury
The second wave of younger swifts have arrived, third wave due July. The lack of swifts each year is worrying. we need to PRESERVE natural nest sites and ADD more nest boxes!
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Fabulous... Let us know how it goes next year!
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Great to see swifts so well represented by champions
@WriterHannahBT
and
@ChetCunago
in this year's nominations and gongs
@BirdwatchExtra
Well done & thank you for all you've done to raise the profile of the plight of our swifts, and to
@WildJustice_org
as national winner
Proud of our
@SheffSwiftNet
member
@ChetCunago
for winning the
@BirdwatchExtra
Local Hero Award, the fabulous
@WildJustice_org
as national winner and
@WriterHannahBT
who campaigned exhaustively to mandate swift bricks ❤️
Be a winner & help our swifts
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🤞🤞 Please re assess your decision
@mtpennycook
A pleasure to sit down with
@BeccyRSPB
and
@WriterHannahBT
today to discuss in detail precisely how we best achieve our shared objective of quickly and effectively boosting swift brick coverage across the country.
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A great Co-op swift nest project in Machynlleth. 👏
What a great event ran by Dyfi Biosphere Swift Project in Machynlleth. Jonathan Pomroy and Edward Mayer came to give talks after hearing about the amazing Co-op swift nest box project! Things are kicking off in Mid Wales for the swifts!
@bardseyben
@JonathanMPomroy
@NaturNaomi
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Fabulous
#Swifts
Day spent with Richard Scullion putting up 18 boxes in Ryedale. Nunnington, Kirby Moorside, Fadmoor, Cropton. Appleton-le-Moor and Pickering. Hopefully they will make a difference. Great to speak to all the people wanting to encourage Swifts in their areas.
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So important to survey and record Swift nests.
"If we don't know where they are we can't protect them".
Why not pop out around 8.45pm walk your street and if you see it log a Swift nest.
"If we don't know where they are we can't protect them"
Why not check out your neighbourhood and submit nest site locations to the Derbyshire Swift Survey?
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30th June. for
@swiftsweek
Deal, Kent. Marvellous
@pilts1974
holding a 'come see/hear swifts' event.
Swift Awareness Week begins this month, and to mark the event, my local Swift action group will be spending the day at my colony on the 30th June. If anyone wants to come along and talk all things Swifts, in the company of Swifts, just let me know.
#DealSwifts
#swiftawarenessweek
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❗ What to do when finding a grounded swift THREAD❗RETWEET
If you find a grounded swift, please never throw the bird in the air or hold them out the window.
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@swallowspotting
I’m not taking any credit! All the people down there standing up for our swallows! 💙🐦
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PLEASE COULD YOU RETWEET THIS IMPORTANT INFO 😀
@RSPBEngland
@ChrisGPackham
@IoloWilliams2
@michaelastracha
@RSPBScotland
@Natures_Voice
@RSPBbirders
@JohnDayRSPB
@BTO_GBW
@_BTO
@DerbysWildlife
@WildlifeTrusts
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Toooo cute
Watching and waiting, two Swift chicks still in a nestbox on my neighbour's house today, almost ready to fledge, any day soon I think!
@SoSSwifts
@suffolkwildlife
@swiftsweek
@swifts_uk
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Wow. 7 of 11 cavaties now have swifts. Fabulous! 👏
Seven (of eleven) boxes are now occupied in our Swift Tower!
Swift Conservation: "One of only two seriously successful Swift Towers in the UK".
Photos (c) Colin Varndell.
@AfSwifts
@swifts_uk
@HampshireSwifts
@swiftsweek
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Only a few more weeks until they arrive... Get ready to give our Swifts a home.
Happy Valentines! It's
#NationalNestBoxWeek
too - have you got your Swift Boxes ready? Check out... & or make your own - lots DIY options here...
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Stunning image by
@BrianSmrtyr1
The Penshaw Swifts are back! I was greeted by the first 2 last night with another 2 arriving his morning. What a feeling as they gave me a close fly-by! 😃
Pic kindly taken by
@BrianSmrtyr1
@swifts_uk
@DurhamBirdClub
@WakefieldSwifts
#swifts
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