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Overwintering Swallows

8 March 202229 March 2022Nature Notes

Swallows have started spending the winter in Britain instead of migrating 6,000 miles to South Africa, according to the British Trust for Ornithology. The change in behaviour is one of the most remarkable signs yet of the warming world being caused by climate change, according to the BTO’s chief executive, Juliet Vickery. “It is indeed remarkable,”...

SOS: Save our Swifts by Bethan Nowell

23 March 202123 March 2021Nature Notes

Swifts, swallows and martins may only be with us for a few months each year, but they make a huge impression in that time. However, numbers of all these birds have plummeted in recent decades. Installing nest boxes is a great way to provide these birds with the opportunity to breed and help combat population declines.