nick baker has been to the peak district to find out more.e bill, was once a familiar sight on our uplands. but in some parts of the uk it is now close to extinction. here in the peak district, the boggy moors are drying out. which, as researchers are discovering, makes it hard for cu rlews to feed. discovering, makes it hard for curlews to feed. what are you doing? iam curlews to feed. what are you doing? i am looking up our heart of the soil is to see if they can access the invertebrates, if it is too hard they will not be able to feed. so this amazing looking bit of kit is basically a false curlew had? yes. let's see it in action, then. she is checking to see how far a curlew‘s bill would penetrate the soil. when it dries out, the insects curlews feed on either die or go below their reach. this is probably too hard. the drying out of the moors is partly down to farming practices, but conservationists say climate change may be making things worse. the curlew, the golden pullover, they are being negatively impacted by warmer temperatures, am

using exclusive data, nick baker can reveal the latest picture. a classic bristol suburb.orts. i'm here to visit mark and jane granville. they run a sanctuary for swifts. oh, my grief. when they said you had a few swift boxes i was not expecting that. swifts call. mark swift has been coming here for 15 years. i am like in an airshow in your garden, forfree. because they come back to my house i treat with my birds. and they become part of the family. you worry about him, you look forward to when they come. you are like a parent and you worry about them. this year has been a weird one. a strange one, people were e—mailing me saying where are they? what happened was an onslaught of unseasonable weather. they had the worst weather for about 50 years and loads of swifts, they came up exhausted from africa and when they got back to us, we had a terrible june and it was cold and wet. england's swift population has halved since 1995, a big factor is the loss of nesting spots. most modern homes are not as accommodating as these ones. they are concerned about the impact of climate c

using exclusive data, nick baker can reveal the latest picture. a classic bristol suburb. 0f bristol suburb. a refuge for commuters. of all sorts. i'm here to visit mark and jane, they run a sanctuary for swifts. all my good grief... when they said you have a few swift boxes i wasn't expecting that. here they come. listen, listen... 0! mark swift has been coming here for 15 years. mark's swifts. it's like having an airshow in your garden every day for free. because they come back to my house, i treat them as my birds, and they become part of the family. you worry about them, you look forward to when they come from and you are like a pa rent they come from and you are like a parent like where are they, they are late. i just love them. parent like where are they, they are late. ijust love them. they make a perilous journey from africa, where they spend the winter, but this year, they arrived late, some not at all. this one has been eared —— this has been a weird year right to? people were e—mailing me in may saying where are my swifts? what happened was an onslaught of unsea

nick baker has been to the peak district to find out more.ing, makes it hard for cu rlews to are discovering, makes it hard for curlews to feed. what are you doing? iam what are you doing? i am looking up our hard of the soil is to see if they can access the invertebrates, if it is too hard they will not be able to feed. so this amazing looking bit of kit is basically a curlew? yes. she is checking to see how far a curlew‘s bill would penetrate the soil. when it feed on either die or go below their reach. this is probably too hard. the drying out of the moors is partly down to farming practices, but conservationists say climate change may be making things worse. the curlew, the golden pullover, they are being negatively impacted by warmer temperatures, among other things. we are seeing the bird communities around us reshuffling as a result of the changes that we see, species are shifting the distribution ata distribution at a pace of three or more kilometres per year. you know, these impacts are real. the btl analysed 50 years of data for the