Hannah Bourne-Taylor is a bird lover. She is an author (Fledgling, 2022; Nature Needs You – The Fight To Save Our Swifts, 2025), bird conservationist and award-winning political campaigner. She launched her ongoing national swift brick campaign, almost naked, in 2022, and worked directly with Scottish MSPs to pass swift brick legislation in Scotland in 2026. She features on Clarkson’s Farm Series 5 (Amazon Prime) and has become a leading voice in bird conservation. She is also a ghostwriter, developing books including Lady Glenconner’s award-winning memoir, Lady in Waiting and Norman Scott’s An Accidental Icon.
Hannah regularly speaks on the radio about birds, particularly for BBC Radio 4’s Today Programme and PM, as well as being featured on BBC Radio 4’s Great Lives and Saturday Live. She has regularly appeared on GB News and Talk TV, and her campaign has been covered across national news in TV, Radio and Print. She was once interviewed naked, live, by Piers Morgan for his TV show, Uncensored. Hannah has completed two book tours around the UK, speaking at Literary Festivals such as Hay and Oxford, and is regularly invited to speak about her campaign in towns and cities across the country, including at both the Oxford and the London Natural History Museums.
Photographer credit – David Smith
