Swift Week calendar update!
The swift week event at Oughterard Court House is now on Friday 15th June 2018 at 7:30pm!
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Events for Swift Awareness Week
From June 16th to June 23rd, various swift related events will take place to celebrate Swift Awareness Week, for a calendar of events, please CLICK HERE!
Lynda Huxley spotted a swift over GMIT nest boxes 30th April
Lynda Huxley saw one Swift flying over GMIT Mayo Campus in Castlebar yesterday evening and we have fresh nest material in boxes 9 and 7. Hope to get livestream up and running in next couple of days. Ricky Whelan of BirdWatchIreland has also had reports of Swift sightings in Banagher and Birr. These will be … Read moreLynda Huxley spotted a swift over GMIT nest boxes 30th April
Lynda Huxley is giving a swift talk at Hotel Newport in Newport on April 16th
On Monday April 16th at 20:00 in the Hotel Newport, Newport, Lynda Huxley will be giving a talk as a part of the “Mayo Dark Skies”. Artificial light can be a problem for migrating birds and at their nest sites. Lynda will be sharing information about this amazing bird and how we can all help … Read moreLynda Huxley is giving a swift talk at Hotel Newport in Newport on April 16th
New Swift Videos page
Come and see the new Swift Videos page on our site, Lynda Huxley speaks about saving our swifts and there is a video of swifts in their nest box exercising their wings too! CLICK HERE to see the videos.
How Schools can Help Swifts – a talk by Lynda Huxley 22nd February
Talk “How Schools can Help Swifts” by Lynda Huxley at 3.30pm at the Green Schools Expo in the RDS on Thursday 22 February. Tickets need to be booked I think through Green Schools Expo website.
Seoirse Swanton at the BT Young Scientist Exhibition in Dublin – 13th January 2018
Well done to Seoirse Swanton, representing Sancta Maria College Louisburg, who is presenting his research on GMIT Mayo swifts at the BT Young Scientist exhibition. Swift Conservation Ireland Green-Campus.
Swift Talk in Northern Ireland – 24th January
Message from Mark Smyth of SaveourSwifts “Here’s a date for your diary. On 24th January Claire Barnett is giving a talk on GPS tracking of swifts to the Northern Ireland Ornithologists Club meeting in the Ulster Museum at 7.30pm
Seoirse Swanton enters the Young Scientist of the Year with swift project.
Very excited that Seoirse Swanton from Sancta Maria in Louisburgh, Co. Mayo has been selected to present our Swift Research Project at BT Young Scientist of the Year in January 2018 at the RDS in Dublin. Seoirse has played a very big role in this research project, couldn’t have achieved so much without him, and … Read moreSeoirse Swanton enters the Young Scientist of the Year with swift project.
Notes on sound system for playing swift attraction calls has been updated.
Notes on sound system for playing swift attraction calls by Lynda Huxley – November 2017 is now available from the link on the Nest Box Advice page.