By our special correspondent Prof Lailo After a heated COBRA meeting this morning Boris Johnson emerged triumphant to announce that Swift surveying planned f...

Despite the increasingly strict government recommendations to minimise social contact there is no reason that the installation of Swift boxes cannot continue...

Many of the talks and displays organised by Hampshire Swifts are hosted by organisations sympathetic to our conservation aims such as local natural history g...

Since mid-2018 our volunteers have reviewed and commented on 214 planning applications submitted by developers to the 15 planning authorities in Hampshire. E...

Takes place between the 27th June 2020 and 5th July 2020 and is actually a "week" of nine days, including both weekends. The essence of SAW is that it about ...

Over the years we've seen a number of potential explanations for the decline in numbers of urban nesting bird species such as house sparrow, starling and, of...

Ron Cooke has kindly submitted an update to the status of his Swift colony in Southampton. "In 2019, at the Regents Park Community Swift Colony, we recorded ...

Over the past 4 years Hampshire Swifts has installed up to 1000 new Swift nest boxes across the county. The popularity of our offer to supply and fit Swift b...

The map shows the locations of Swift nest sites in the Avon Valley using data submitted to the Hampshire Swift survey over the past few years (more detail). ...

Why not come and talk to us at the New Forest National Park Volunteer Fair on Sunday 26 January 2020? We have a variety of trustee and non-trustee roles avai...

Continuing their high profile involvement in Swift conservation the RSPB have published an updated version of their "How to Help Swifts" leaflet. A pdf file ...

If 2019 was year of the "S" brick, developed by Dick Newell of Action for Swifts (see below), then what advances in nest site technology can we expect in 202...

...then visit the Hampshire Swifts stand at the NFNP Volunteer Fair on January 26th and ask how you can help us help Swifts

The first Swift Awareness Week (SAW) was in 2018 with Swift groups across the UK organising a remarkable 90+ local events. This year there were over 100, wit...

A healthy, sustainable Swift population is reliant on any number of factors, some better understood than others. These can be distilled down to three categor...

Hampshire Swifts has a limited stock of the following branded items for sale. These Swift mugs were designed specially for us and are exceptional value at £ ...

The Hospital of St Cross in Winchester is thought to be one of England’s oldest charitable institutions and has been described by Simon Jenkins as ‘England’s...

If you want to learn more about Swifts and mix with some of the Europe's foremost Swift experts in the warm, beautiful and Swift-filled city of Segovia then w...

This slow motion video was taken in the summer of 2019 at Ron Cooke's Regent's Park Swift colony in Southampton. The Hampshire Swifts website is being revamp...