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Ballyclare: Bird experts in Northern Ireland try to save a species (www.bbc.co.uk)

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Bird groups have recorded a 66% reduction in breeding swifts across the UK in the last 30 years.

However Ballyclare is one location which is stepping up to help preserve the "Bird of the Borough," with a call for people in the area to get involved by hosting nesting boxes., external

One local expert has said "it will take time, but work is well underway".

Swifts are warm weather birds, arriving from late April, before making the 3,400 mile trip back to Africa from early August.

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