{"id":399453,"date":"2026-01-30T21:25:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-30T21:25:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/399453\/"},"modified":"2026-01-30T21:25:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-30T21:25:10","slug":"swift-bricks-to-be-put-in-every-new-home-in-scotland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/399453\/","title":{"rendered":"Swift bricks to be put in every new home in Scotland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A new law has been passed in Scotland which means that every new house built in the country will have to have a swift brick in them.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A swift brick looks a bit like a normal brick, but it&#8217;s hollow inside to allow birds &#8211; like swifts &#8211; to nest in them.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">According to charity RSPB (The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds) the number of swifts in the UK has fallen by around 66% over the last 25 years.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Conservationists say this is because of a lack of bugs to eat and places to nest.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Swifts normally like to nest in little holes under the roofs of people&#8217;s houses, and once they find a cosy nest, they will return to the same place every year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Scottish MPs hope that the new rules will help give the birds a boost.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A new law has been passed in Scotland which means that every new house built in the country&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":399454,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":["post-399453","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-science","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399453","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=399453"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399453\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/399454"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=399453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=399453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=399453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}