The idea was conceived four years ago, on our formation (and obviously guided by the success of ‘Swift Mapper’), but we held back to concentrate on building the foundations of the charity and growing from there, before returning to it last year after seeing the charity grow and develop, allowing us to recentre once more upon the initiative.

Well, the moment is now here and we’d like to encourage all to utilise the app for the benefit of our beloved house martins!

Unlike ‘Swift Mapper’ data doesn’t feed directly to other conservation charities, but we can make the data available to the BTO, local ornithological societies and the RSPB (for example) upon their requests.

The app allows you to record details of yours, or other colonies along with a facility to record mud collecting data.

Although our social media accounts allow us to see your reports of national locations of house martin colonies across the UK and Ireland, we needed a more stored and accessible way of collecting and utilising data, to enable us to refine and enhance our conservation efforts.

We do encourage official members of the charity to continue to participate in the members survey that is active within our newsletters and on our website. Your contributions via the members survey are also invaluable.