Links to Useful
Information
UK Websites
Scotland: www.concernforswifts.com/index.html
This is Clare Darlaston's website for Concern for Swifts (Scotland).
London: www.londons-swifts.org.uk/
This is Edward Mayer's award-winning website concentrating mainly
on swifts in the Greater London area.
Oxford Museum: www.oum.ox.ac.uk/swift1.htm
The long-standing project studying the swift colony in the tower
of Oxford University Museum, where there are now over 40 boxes with
3 alternating webcams.
If you would like to link to our website, please contact Jake
Allsop.
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International
Websites
Netherlands: www.pz.nl/gierzwaluw/
The official Dutch website. Contact: Hans Remmen hans.remmen@wxs.nl
Germany: www.mauersegler.klausroggel.de/
Site owner is Klaus Roggel who has swiftboxes with webcams. Good
pictures. Text in German.
Germany: www.mauerseglerschule.de
Site owner is Arlet Wills from Regensburg. She is a director of
a large primary school with about 40 pairs of swifts. It is hoped
that this website will become the official site for school swift
projects in Germany
Germany: www.nabu.de/m01/m01_05/00699.html
A section on swifts within the German NABU site. Text in German.
Europe: www.commonswift.org/colony_Berlin.html
Ulrich Tigges' Website of the Common Swift has a wealth of information
about swifts in Berlin. Fascinating.
Worldwide: groups.yahoo.com/group/Swallows-Martins-Swifts-Worldwide
This yahoo group is worth joining: it is a very lively and informative
group with lots of detailed information about many aspects of the
swift's life including breeding, behaviour, migration and parasites.
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