‘Swifts spark joy!’ Why these beautiful birds need our help – and 10 ways to give it Britain’s swift population fell by two-thirds between 1995 and 2023. Make their lives a little easier with a bit more food and more places to nest

Be a swift brick champion! #NatureNeedsYou author @hannahbournetaylor.bsky.social speaks to @theguardian.com about how we can help these beautiful birds.

“I’m obsessed with swift bricks ... they’re so easy to install."
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Did you know we share our towns, cities and countryside with animals that are now endangered?

The more we learn, the more we can do. Let’s give nature a chance to recover.

#UKWildlife #EcoSchools #BetterPlanetEducation #WildlifeFriendlySpaces #BiodiversityMatters #NatureNeedsYou #ClimateEducation

What incredible news for the swifts! Congratulations to Hannah Bourne-Taylor and everyone campaigning so tirelessly to #SaveOurSwifts!

📖Read more about Hannah's campaign in #NatureNeedsYou

#NatureNeedsYou by @hannahbournetaylor.bsky.social is included in @bookshop-org-uk.bsky.social's Nature Reading Guide!

Order from your local bookshop here:
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#Nature #Swifts #Birds #NatureWriting #Conservation #SaveTheSwifts

Swift bricks, ancient tattoos and more: Books in brief Andrew Robinson reviews five of the best science picks.

🪶 @hannahbournetaylor.bsky.social's 'thought-provoking memoir' #NatureNeedsYou has been selected by @nature.com for their round-up of ‘the best science picks’!
www.nature.com/articles/d41...

#NonFiction #Campaigner #Birds #Swifts #SaveOurSwifts #Environment #Nature #Science #Ecology

A few nights ago I saw sixty swirling screaming spiralling swifts, right above me. #NatureNeedsYou I about trying to save our icons of summer.

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Boom. This portrait in #CotswoldLife doesn’t hold anything back. If you want to know why I did it, read the article, out now and my book, #NatureNeedsYou

A wing and a prayer: saving our farmland bird populations By bridging ‘the hungry gap’ with supplementary feeding, we can breathe life into our declining farmland bird populations, but farming practices must be changed to secure their future.

By bridging ‘the hungry gap’ with supplementary feeding, we can breathe life into our declining farmland bird populations.
#NatureNeedsYou author @hannahbournetaylor.bsky.social writes for @countrylifemag.bsky.social:
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#birds #bird #farmland #SaveOurSwifts

Check out my review of Nature needs you by @hannahbournetaylor.bsky.social

A wonderful plea for swifts

4⭐
#birding #natureneedsyou #netgalley
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A sparrowhawk just flew into my kitchen. And also, this happened. #WainwrightPrize #StoriesThatConnect #NatureNeedsYou #Conservation @eandtbooks.bsky.social @wainwrightprize.bsky.social

Lovely news claxon this morning!

@hannahbournetaylor.bsky.social #NatureNeedsYou has been longlisted for the #WainwrightPrize @wainwrightprize.bsky.social for Conservation Writing – congratulations to a brilliant longlist, all fighting for the natural world

#StoriesThatConnect #SwiftBricks

It's #SwiftAwarenessWeek! Learn more about @hannahbournetaylor.bsky.social's incredible fight to make #SwiftBricks compulsory in new buildings in new book #NatureNeedsYou: bit.ly/3IapWYD

It’s #SwiftAwarenessWeek : 28 June - 6 July 2025 and we can all do our bit to help these amazing birds.

Hannah Bourne-Taylor @hannahbournetaylor.bsky.social pictured speaking about the swift brick campaign and #NatureNeedsYou at the Chalke History Festival.

#ChalkeHistoryFestival

Our village street used to be a-shriek with swifts.

Today, there isn't a single one.

Please ask your MP to support the Swift Brick amendment to the Planning & Infrastructure Bill.

#SwiftBricks #MandateForSwiftBricks
#SwiftsNeedUs #NatureNeedsYou

If you're like me, you'll get an automated reply stating that she can only answer her constituents. But it also claims that she reads all emails received. Regardless of where we live in the UK, we need to fill her inbox with emails headed MANDATE SWIFT BRICKS PLEASE.

#NatureNeedsYou #SwiftsNeedUs

A drink coaster depicting a natterjack toad, as an advertisement for Natterjack Whiskey.

Look at this coaster! It reminded me of @hannahbournetaylor.bsky.social and her father, and #NatureNeedsYou.

‘[Hannah] is an engaging and impassioned communicator, and her rallying cry highlights the struggle of liaising with campaigners, lobbyists and politicians in a bid to effect meaningful change.’ @theobserveruk.bsky.social

#NatureNeedsYou by @hannahbournetaylor.bsky.social is out now
#SaveOurSwifts

Broken promises. Nature needs you. | Worcestershire Wildlife Trust The Planning and Infrastructure Bill breaks Labour's promises to protect nature. Now nature needs your help...

Governments broken promises to protect nature with the new #Planning&InfrastructureBill
Here’s a blog outlining why and what you can do about it. www.worcswildlifetrust.co.uk/blog/mike-pe... @worcswt.bsky.social #natureneedsyou #brokenpromises

Swifts need us, more than ever.

#EarlyDayMotion #NatureNeedsYou #SaveOurSwifts #SwiftBricks

Thank you so much for your lovely message. I’m so glad you love swifts as I can’t imagine you don’t with that sort of response to #NatureNeedsYou !

@hannahbournetaylor.bsky.social Firstly, thank you so much for your courage and tenacity. Secondly, what a wonderful book! I've been moved to tears by it more than once. Everyone should read #NatureNeedsYou
Btw - the swifts in sunny Crayford are delighting us daily 🥰

Google searches that I, as an American, made while reading #NatureNeedsYou:
•Defra (repeatedly, b/c kept forgetting what it was)
•leverett (had guessed, but wanted to make sure)
•shisha
•wax worms
•Zac Goldsmith resignation
•Lord Randall
•surgery Parliament

Also, you should read this book.

Petition: Protect hares and their young from shooting during the breeding season We call on the Government to stop the shooting of hares during their peak breeding season, by establishing a legally enforceable close season for hares in England and Wales, from 1st February to 30th ...

If you love hares then please sign this petition. I didn’t grow up with hares so living with them so close (once, proudly part of #NatureNeedsYou I dozed in a wet field with a leverett) makes me feel a hint of magic in the fields.

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In pictures Swifts have started to appear to the UK, where they will nest before returning to spend the winter months in Africa ALAMY

Swifts fly into the nationals again, this time with The Times - Aptly named Henry Bird interviewed me in Parliament last week while I was scrawling pleas in 70 copies of #NatureNeedsYou for the cabinet & other VIP Ministers 😬👀♥️ link.thetimes.co.uk/view/62e2a8a...

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Some wonderful photos of @hannahbournetaylor.bsky.social at Jaffe and Neale over the weekend. How wonderful is their window? 💛

Signed copies of #NatureNeedsYou are available in store and online, while stocks last.

#SwiftWatch #BeautifulBooks #NatureWriting #ChooseBookshops #SaveOurSwifts

​‘The hypocrisy is staggering’: will swift bricks fall prey to government fears of Reform? Campaigner Hannah Bourne-Taylor fears goal of requiring all new homes to include a hollow brick to help endangered cavity-nesting birds may be dropped

"It’s a 50m-year-old existence weighing on my shoulders.” Brilliantly fierce piece from @patrickbarkham.bsky.social on @hannahbournetaylor.bsky.social's excellent new book #NatureNeedsYou. Up there with Mary Colwell & the female founders of @rspb.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/environment/...

On Mayday the iconic window of Daunt Books in Marylebone celebrated swifts through the launch of my book #NatureNeedsYou

Mighty congratulations to @hannahbournetaylor.bsky.social on #NatureNeedsYou, just as our beloved #swifts arrive. A thriller of a book: Hannah is a hero for these times, making vulnerability, resolve & passion, a defiance we can all draw on, in the face of obstacles, idiocy, putdowns and setbacks.

Congratulations @penny-walker-sd.bsky.social! You have won a copy of #NatureNeedsYou! Please direct message us with your address and we will send out your copy. :)

Great to be at the launch of Hannah's new book #NatureNeedsYou about her amazing #Swift campaign.