Birdwatching

Join us for our free hours 5pm- 7:30pm for activities celebrating the amazing journeys our bird buddies have made to be with us here in New York City. The Cornell University Cooperative Extension will lead games and bird watching activities, while we also host a screening of "Winged Migration." Fly, waddle and soar over all seven continents to find out more about how and why birds travel long distances.

Birdwatchig and educating tour with children in the Novoknezevacki fishpond.

The Birding Cup of Moscow is a birdwatching competition coordinated by NP "Birds and People" and is being implemented twice a year since 2010. This year 7 divisions of Moscow government-subordinated protected areas are involved in the organization of the Cup. The event is sponsored by the Moscow State Department of Natural Resources and Enviroment Protection.

WMBD 2011 activities in Aceh are being organized by the Cicem Nanggroe Society together with Mipro and the Nusa Creation Community (NCC). The NCC is a local community group which recycles trash by making handcrafted products. Mipro is a student club for the Veterinary Faculty at Syiah Kuala University concerned about conservation issues.

• Vogelstimmenkunde
• Hinweise auf die negativen Entwicklungen in der Agarlandschaft und die Auswirkungen auf die Vogelwelt
• Erklärungen zum Vogelzug
• Verweis auf den World Migratory Bird Day

Treffpunkt: Hof Struck, Isingdorfer Weg 8
33824 Werther /Westf.
Beginn: 6.00 Uhr

In order to celebrate the world's migratory birds, Biopalas-USU (Biology, Nature Lovers and Life Environmental Studies University of North Sumatra) conducted observations of migrant birds at several locations at the east coast of North Sumatra and the results will be discussed in general with biology students of the University of North Sumatra.

The aim of the workshop is to learn to identify birds by song and call. The focus will be on warblers and migratory birds, and the threats to migratory birds will be highlighted.

The workshop aims at helping participants to identify warblers by voice and plumage and learn about the threats to them, as examples for migratory birds. The workshop will start with an indoor session where we will listen to warbler songs and calls and look at key warbler features, to be followed by a walk testing our skills in the field.

As previous years KuzeyDoga Society will be celebrating World Migratory Bird Day at Aras Bird Research and Education Center in northeastern Turkey. Aras valley is an important bird migration site where millions of passerines and soaring birds migrate from Africa to Eurasia and vice versa. KuzeyDoga Society has been ringing birds in this valley since 2006 and the data we have collected how Aras valley is important for bird migration due to the individuals we retrapped.

Bangladesh is a poor and over-populated country. A high number of children live in slums and a good number have no home. They live in parks or on the road side in Dhaka and other big cities of Bangladesh. Destitute children do not have then chance to study nature and birds. So we are going to arrange a programmee for these children and to celebrate with them World Migratory Bird Day 2011.