Top 10 Bird Boxes for New Builds and Developments

This is the final post in a three part series, designed to help you choose from our bestselling bird boxes. All of the boxes listed below are suitable for building into the masonry of a new build or development.

The previous two posts provide suggestions of boxes suitable for positioning on a tree in a garden, park or woodland, and for siting on a wall or fence.

For each box we have provided a quick guide to the material that it is made from, the entrance hole size and the species that the box is suitable for.

1. Schwegler 1SP Sparrow Terrace

• Made from: Woodcrete
• Entrance: 6 x oval (32 x 50mm)
• Suitable for: House sparrows, tree sparrows

2. Vivara Pro WoodStone House Sparrow Nest Box

• Made from: WoodStone
• Entrance: 2 x oval (32 x 50mm)
• Suitable for: House sparrows, tree sparrows

3. No. 16 Schwegler Swift Box

• Made from: Woodcrete
• Entrance: 67 x 38mm
• Suitable for: Swifts, house sparrows, tree sparrows, blue tits, and great tits

4. Schwegler Brick Nest Boxes

• Made from: Woodcrete
• Entrance: 32mm, small oval (55 x 33mm) or large oval (110 x 80mm)
• Suitable for: 32mm – great tits, blue tits, marsh tits, coal tits, crested tits, redstart, nuthatches, tree sparrows and house sparrows;
small oval – swifts, house sparrows, tree sparrows, blue tits, and great tits;
large oval – redstart, pied wagtail, spotted flycatchers

5. WoodStone Build-in Swift Nest Box Deep

• Made from: WoodStone
• Entrance: 65 x 30mm
• Suitable for: Swifts, house sparrows, tree sparrows, blue tits, and great tits

6. Swift Box – Smooth Brick

• Made from: Concrete and brick
• Entrance: 65 x 33mm
• Swifts, house sparrows, tree sparrows, blue tits, and great tits

7. Ibstock Eco-Habitat for Swifts

• Made from: Concrete and brick
• Entrance: 55 x 33mm
• Suitable for: Swifts, house sparrows, tree sparrows, blue tits, and great tits

8. Sparrow Box – Smooth Brick

• Made from: Concrete and brick
• Entrance: 32mm
• Suitable for: House sparrows, tree sparrows, blue tits, and great tits

9. Terraced Sparrow Box – Smooth Brick

• Made from: Concrete and brick
• Entrance: 3 x 32mm
• Suitable for: House sparrows, tree sparrows, blue tits, and great tits

10. Starling Box – Smooth Brick

• Made from: Concrete and brick
• Entrance: 45mm
• Suitable for: Starlings, tree sparrows, blue tits, and great tits

Browse our full range of build-in nest boxes.

The full range of nest boxes can be found in our online shop, as well as a useful nest box price list which can be downloaded as a pdf.