First published in 1956, Swifts in a Tower still offers astonishing
insights into the private lives of swifts, their lifestyles, and the
environment they inhabit. Now more than sixty years later, swifts have
been studied even more thoroughly, using technology unimaginable in the
1950s. This research has revealed more secrets of these indomitable
flyers, which spend virtually their entire lives in flight, and so this
new edition, edited by the author's son Andrew Lack and published in
association with the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds for their
Oxford Swift City project, includes a brand-new chapter by Andrew Lack
that updates the story of this remarkable bird for the twenty-first
century.