A combined work of sculpture and wildlife habitat is being installed in Exeter city centre today. A nesting tower for swifts is being put up on the Paris Street roundabout.
Swifts are regular summer visitors to Exeter where they play a useful part by keeping mosquito numbers down - but there's currently a lack of nooks and crannies in local buildings for them to nest in.
Now an eight metre high tower will provide them with what's meant to be an ideal nesting site.
Recorded swift calls will be played out from the tower to attract the swifts, and it'll have solar powered lighting at night/.
the initiative's been funded through local construction projects with support from the Devon Wildlife Trust.
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