![]() At a minimum, we should recognise what’s happening, and understand that a creature that can fly 1m kilometres in its lifetime and takes our imaginations with its soaring flight is about to join other rare but once common species – the cuckoo, curlew, lapwing, sparrow, numerous migrating warblers, and even the starling. ![]() The disappearance of swifts from our skies is one of the saddest prospects of this epoch of casual extermination. Binoculars confirmed hundreds of swifts heading south-west. At length, I realised they were aiming for a wave of birds flying at great altitude. With each pass over the church and the green, they rose higher and higher. The village swifts were gathered in a screaming mob. Last year, I saw something miraculous when returning from a walk at dusk. ![]() Worldwide, 33% of all insects are at risk of extinction In 20 years, flying insects have declined in Britain by 60%. ![]()
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