Birdwatching

-Poems by school kids -Presentations by BirdLife Zimbabwe staff and members -Birdwatching

For the World Migratory Bird Day we are planning to produce a bird watching manual. It will be distributed to students who are attending our programme. Special lectures on birds and bird ringing will be conducted and a one-day bird watching excursion in the forest area will be implemented, too.

Jornadas dirigidas a estudiantes, prof. de biología´, geografía, guías de áreas protegidas y turismo, docentes, médicos veterinarios y público en general interesado en la temática referida a las amenazas sobre las aves migratorias causadas por el cambio climático. Recepción de contingentes estudiantiles en IADIZA-CRICYT, charlas en colegios , en Áreas Protegidas, Municipios e instituciones de la provincia de Mendoza.Elaboración de cuadernillo informativo. Difusión en medios de comunicación.

This year’s WMBD celebration is focused on educating people, especially youth on the importance of conserving waterbirds and the habitat which they depend on. The celebration is scheduled to hold in the Dagona Waterfowl Sanctuary, Hadejia-Nguru Wetlands, Yobe State, one of the important wetland areas that homes both palearctic and resident waterbirds.

This is an annual activity that want both pupils and all other people in Norway to register signs of spring in a database (birds, flowers, insects etc.). The aims are both to monitor the phenological variation in the country as well as the timing of spring due to climate change. It has been carried out since 1999. Since the spring of 2007 it has been a collaboration with the national television company, NRK.

Birdwatching activities by the National Bonn Committee of Macedonia in cooperation with “Birdlife” Macedonia, National Ramsar Committee, Ministry of Environment and Physical Planning and NATUROPA Office around Skopje.

The World Migratory Birds Day 2007, the second such celebration to be held in Kenya was celebrated at Lake Nakuru National Park Eduational Centre on 12th May 2007. The event organised courtesy of Kenya Wildlife Service(KWS) Wetlands Programme involved a number of talk shows on various issues as migratory birds, the role of L. Nakuru as a migratory bird habitat, community role in conservation of migratory birds habitat and adaptations of migrant birds.

An orientation program on birds is arranged at the premises of the Ahmedabad Zoo. Participants mostly school teachers and students, will get aquainted with the co-existances of migratory birds in the premises of the zoo complex vis-a-vis with captive birds in the cages.

To observe various species of birds in an area and record the species and numbers of each species.

i) -Awareness campaigns on WMBD, wild birds, climate change and African Flyways in schools (primary school, Secondary/High School and University)
ii) -Meeting with an association of poultry farmers to share information on the role of wild birds in the progation of bird flu.
iii) -Search, arrange and distribute handouts related to migratory birds, bird flu, African flyway and climate change
iv) -Press briefing/media coverage/interviews on the role of migratory birds in a changing climate and information on Africa Flyway concept.