'Swifts and Us' Book

The life of the bird that sleeps in the sky.

Swifts live almost entirely in the air. They eat, drink, sleep, mate and gather their nesting materials on the wing; fly thousands of miles across the world; navigate their way around storms; never light on tree, cliff or ground until they return home with the summer. But the swifts are in real danger: often unintentionally, we are sealing our homes against wildlife, leading to a catastrophic loss of breeding places. Thankfully, there are people in the UK and across Europe striving to keep these superb birds screaming through our skies.