#swift bricks

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Network rail have filled swift nesting sites with mortar during a refurbishment of a viaduct in Derbyshire. Swifts are endagered in the UK and they are about to return from one of the biggest migration journeys in the world. They return to the same nesting sites each year and if the holes aren't unblocked these birds will die. You can put in a complaint to network rail, email their ceo and sign this petition. Show that we care about our endagered birds and will not let them be lost

Network Rail: Unblock the swift nesting holes - Protect the Wild

Network Rail: Reopen Swift Nesting Holes at Chapel Milton Viaduct 4697 people have taken action so far. Help us reach 10000 First name Last

Email network rail ceo: [email protected]

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Tory MPs back mandatory swift bricks in all new homes to help declining birds

Calls grow for legislation requiring developers to include hollow bricks for endangered nesting species

Conservative MPs are joining calls for a new law to guarantee swift bricks in every new home to help the rapidly declining bird and other endangered roof-nesting species. Pressure is growing to amend the levelling up bill so that developers are required to include a hollow brick for nesting birds in all new housing, with MPs to debate the issue in parliament on 10 July. A petition for swift bricks, which are also used by other endangered species such as house martins, house sparrows and starlings, was launched by the writer Hannah Bourne-Taylor and gained more than 100,000 signatures. The swift migrates from Africa to Europe every summer, nesting in roofs and bringing its distinctive screaming calls to cities and towns, but it has declined by at least 60% since 1995. Its decline is linked to drastic losses in the airborne insects it feeds on but also to home improvements and energy efficient new houses sealing up the crevices where it once nested.

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