Swifts live almost entirely in the air. They eat, drink, sleep, mate and gather their nesting materials on the wing, fly thousands of miles across the world, navigating their way around storms, never lighting on tree, cliff or ground, until they return home with the summer.
A lyrical interweaving of natural history and social history, presenting the complexities of the bird that eats, drinks, sleeps and mates in the air, seldom lighting at all and for this reason enduringly capturing the public imagination.
