Rest of UK has resisted calls to make builders install bricks that provide nesting for swifts and other endangered birds ...

Scotland made history yesterday by becoming the first UK country to introduce a legal requirement that should see nesting ...

The Scottish government has made it part of the law, that all new homes should have a special brick added to make a home for ...

Robert Robinson works as an Associate Director at the British Trust for Ornithology, which collates of the citizen science-based data that underpins much of the analyses discussed here. Swifts need ...

The number of nest boxes used by an endangered bird to breed has increased in the past year, according to the Suffolk Bird Group. The number of swifts using nesting boxes in Suffolk has risen from 263 ...

The Scottish Parliament has passed a law that requires new buildings in Scotland to be fitted with swift bricks for nesting ...

A law requiring all new buildings over a certain size to include swift bricks has been passed in Scotland. Swift nesting ...

Scotland has become the first nation in the UK to require swift‑nesting bricks in all new buildings, following the passage of the Natural Environment (Scotland) Bill. For the housing and construction ...