Celebrity farmer Jeremy Clarkson endorsed "swift bricks" to help conserve declining swift populations, earning praise from a bird conservationist.

Bird conservationist Hannah Bourne-Taylor praised celebrity farmer Jeremy Clarkson for raising awareness about swifts in his recent column. Clarkson supports using "swift bricks" in new buildings to provide nesting habitats for swifts, a species facing population decline. Bourne-Taylor campaigns to make these hollow bricks compulsory in all new constructions across the UK to help save the swifts.