The Swift Mapper app - tool designed to help track where Swifts are nesting and contribute to conservation efforts - has hit a milestone 100,000 records from members of the public.

  • The Swift Mapper app - a citizen science tool designed to help track where Swifts are nesting and contribute to conservation efforts - has hit a milestone 100,000 records from members of the public.

  • The loss of suitable nest sites for Swifts has played a role in their decline of 66% between 1995 and 2022 in the UK. But records submitted to the Swift Mapper app can be used to help inform the protection and installation of further Swift nest boxes and ‘Swift bricks’ on buildings across the UK, giving hope for the much-loved bird.

  • Swifts travel more than 7,000 miles from Africa to the UK each summer, eating, sleeping, bathing and mating on the wing