Swifts are among Britain's best loved birds and their annual arrival to our shores signals that summer is on the way. But their numbers are plummeting and they desperately need help. Each year, swifts ...

Over the past 50 years, many people, myself included, have tried to provide nesting boxes for birds. The most common are the many varieties of bluebird boxes, undoubtedly hundreds of thousands, which ...

Hundreds of swift nesting boxes have been installed across Leicestershire to boost numbers of the rare and threatened birds. In 2023, the county council was awarded £77,000 from Natural England to ...