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Learn how to identify swifts, swallows and martins. These birds are all summer visitors to the UK. Here's how you can find the difference between a swift and a swallow or work out what kind of martin you could have spotted!
Swifts and Swallows at Kingcombe Meadows
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Join us for a short talk and an introduction to survey skills for swifts and swallows visiting the buildings at Kingcombe Visitor Centre
Nightjars at Abercarn
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Looking for Nightjars.
Nightjars
See one of the UK's strangest birds: the nocturnal nightjar. Witness this insect eating summer visitor make odd wing-claps and calls, or even nesting on the floor if you have a good enough eye!
Nightjars at Beacon Hill
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Looking for Nightjars.
Species recovery projects
The Wildlife Trusts are working to help species pushed close to extinction and to reintroduce missing keystone species.
Act swiftly! Public asked to help endangered high-flying birds
The Wildlife Trusts & RHS call on gardeners to help swifts, swallows, and martins
Evening Nightjars and Glow-worms Walk
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An evening walk at Blaxhall Heath and Common looking and listening for the nightjar.
Evening Nightjars and Glow-worms Walk
This link will open on the Suffolk Wildlife Trust website.
An evening walk at Blaxhall Heath and Common looking and listening for the nightjar.
Willow Swifts and Leaves Workshop
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Come and join the Coddiwomplers to create willow swifts and leaves at Carlton Marshes.
Willow Swifts and Leaves Workshop
This link will open on the Suffolk Wildlife Trust website.
Come and join the Coddiwomplers to create willow swifts and leaves at Carlton Marshes.
Swifts: Our home is their home
Author Hannah Bourne-Taylor discusses our wonderful swifts – and the fight to save them.