The best Common swift conservation project, ever!

swifts need our help!

At least 300 nest boxes on one building in Azerbaijan

Dear Swift Friends & Colleagues,

You may recall an earlier mailing from us concerning the setting up of alternative nest places for the Swifts that lost their old nest places when the famous historic Maiden Tower in Baku, Azerbaijan, was recently undergoing conservation. The authorities erected many new nest boxes on an adjacent building so the Swift colony could find alternative nest places on its return from migration, and could even expand.

We advised on the use of Swift Calls to encourage the Swifts to move nest places, and it is working - in the You Tube video (the link is above) you can see exciting views of the Swifts entering and exiting the new boxes. Loudspeakers were placed within some of the new nest boxes, a proven technique for gaining interest.

Baku is hosting the Eurovision Song Contest this year, and we hope that many of the multitude of visitors and participants will also see the new Swift nest boxes, which are a worthy spectacle in their own right, as well as a fine example of how to help Swifts survive!

Best wishes,

Yours, Edward
Swift Conservation

swifts need our help!

Traonach

That's brillant and the design on the wall looks beautiful as well. It would be great to see something like that on buildings in all the major cities in Ireland North and South. Hopefully it will get great publicity.:):):)

swifts need our help!

I'd guess that someone is pushing for this to feature on the Eurovision Song Contest

Mothman

I saw thread title and went :rolleyes:

but...I can't argue against it

Thanks for sharing

Judgement Day

With accommodation like that we won't have a Swift left in Ireland once word gets out.