Birdwatching

Center for Protection and Research of birds of Montenegro together with Tivat Municipality and Public Enterprise for management of coastal zone  will celebrate World Migratory Day by organizing educational on-the-field  workshop for students from high school "Mladost" from Tivat. The event will be held on 10th May starting at 10.15 am at the special nature reserve Tivat salina. The  focus of the event will be on raising awarenes about the important bird and plant species  present there and the importance of the salina.

The Bribie Island Environmental Protection Association (BIEPA) will celebrate World Migratory Bird Day at Ramsar and CMS protected wetlands at  Buckley's Hole on Bribie Island within the Moreton Bay Marine Park, Queensland, Australia.

Bring Hat, Refreshments, Binoculars and Cameras and join local bird enthusiasts to celebrate the resident and migratory birds that visit Bribie Island's wetlands and foreshores.

Location: Divjaka-Karavasta National Park.

Date: 10.05.2016

Time: 10:00, at the park office.

Topic / theme: Protection and conservation of high biodiversity natural values of the region with a greater focus on the flagship species of the park, the Dalmatian pelican together with the promotion of local products.

The event will be merged within the World Migratory Bird Day by emphasizing the theme for 2016: Stop the Illegal Killing, Taking and Trade of Migratory Birds.

The Society of Environmental Badu Zuwarah organizes a field visit to the sites of migratory birds in the region Obokmah - scalp - the head of Igdir with a group of Boy Scouts Mvoutih Zuwarah and some interested members and lectures will be held about the importance of birds and knowledge of their different species.

Inviting the people, including the universities students and the general public to the important Bird Area in Bethelem District to watch the lesser kestrel and to have an exhibtion photos of the biodiversity in Palestine.

Awareness campaign on the Importance of Migratory Birds and a campaign to halt the illegal killing, taking and trade in Migratory birds.

The workshop will help raise awareness of the participants on the importance of water birds and conservation of their habitats in the country, for tourism and serves as biological indicators for a healthy environment.

The field visit in hunting areas and forests will enable to compare the long term benefit of killing and conserving birds species and their related habitats for revenue generation through tourism. 

Igdir Directorate of the Ministry of Forestry and Water Affairs, Kafkas University Ornithology Center, KuzeyDoga Society and Igdir University organizes the WMBD 2016 event together in northeast of Turkey with the participation of university students, primary and secondary school students, teachers, local people, GO and NGO representatives and press. The event will take place with the collaboration of Hazar College, Tuzluca Governorship, Igdir Security Directorate, Igdir Provincial Gendarmerie Command, Aralik Municipality and Karakoyunlu Municipality.

General Description of the event and proposed activities:The Hadejia – Nguru Wetlands, designated as a Ramsar site, is one of the key sites that harbours large concentrations of water birds in the west African sub region. During the last water bird counts conducted in January 2016, an estimated one hundred and sixty six thousand four hundred and thirty nine (166,439) water birds were counted; of both resident and migratory.  There were sixty one (61) species recorded in that count..

A two-day program for the pupils of primary schools from Poprad, Slovak republic and Roztoky in the Czech Republic will be held by the Administration of the High Tatras National Park on 4 and 5 May.  Both days an excursion with birdwatching and identifying the bird species around Tatranská Lomnica and Kvetnica pri Porade will be realized for students. May 5 after lunch, the students will be in an environmental lab watching movies about migratory birds, including the eagle Anička returning from Africa.