Hackney Swifts – Hackney Citizen

Swift action: New measures to ‘reverse decline’ of the species in Hackney

By Hackney Citizen | Wednesday 20 June 2018 at 15:43

Council announces plans to build nests into new and existing housing to combat ‘habitat loss’

Swift exit: is Hackney Council missing a big opportunity by exiling this most high-flying of birds?

By Hackney Citizen | Friday 30 June 2017 at 13:31

Hamish Burnett (far-right) and supporters gathered outside e Star by Hackney Downs pub - which has swift boxes in situ. Photograph: Andrew Barnes

Their aerial displays above Hackney’s skies thrill many, but campaigners such as Hamish Burnett are concerned that they will find nowhere to nest in the borough’s increasingly renovated old and new buildings, as he explains in this comment piece