Birdwatching

FoB is going to conduct the birdwatching tours for the educational institution as a part of educational and awareness activities rearding birds and their conservation.

PARAM AMDAVAD is an NGO that organizes programmes related to environmental education such as workshops,camps or birdwatching excursion in India. For the WMBD PARAM AMDAVAD will conduct a similar programme - the Sarus Crane Watch on 13/05/07. Students & ornithologists will be taking part in the programme. The Participation of around 20 people is expected.

Spring is looked out for in the surrounding bank of the Yonago waterbirds sanctuary. Every year, it has become earlier that the flowers here bloom. The birdwatching tour is organised by Nakumi Waterbird International.

Bird walks by BIRDSOFGUJARAT.NET on World Migratory Bird Day on 12th May, near Navlakhi from 6:00 AM to 8:00 AM. In the evening (12th May) 6:00PM to 8:00PM near Harni and Kamla Nagar ponds. On 13th from Anand Railway Station to Khodiya Reservoir from 7:00 AM to 2:00 PM.

-Sunday 6th May 2007: National Broadcast of dawn bird calls
-Thursday 10th May 2007: Press Release and Press Conference to launch the celebration followed by a forum on Migration, Flyways and climate change/global warming
-News Article in National Dailies
-Organise introductory and interactive lessons on bird watching and wetlands exploration for families and friends, tour operators and guides at Ramsar sites. This will be done in form of bird watching tours to two Ramsar sites every weekend in May 2007

Monitoreo de aves playeras en 4 regiones de Marismas Nacionales (MN).(Monitoring of Shorebirds in four protected Wetlands of Mexico (Xalisco).)

Taller sobre aves migratorias con nilos de escuelas primarias y secundarias de la región de MN.(Workshop on Migratory birds for elementary and secondary schools in the region of Marismas nacionales in Xalisco, Mexico)

El domingo 13 de mayo visitaremos el Humedal San Pedro con los niños de una Escuela Básica local, realizaremos actividades de Interpretación Ambiental enfocada a la ecología de este cuerpo de agua y las aves migratorias registradas hasta la fecha.

La visita será a las 04:30 p.m.

English translation:

Sunday 13 of May we will visit the San Pedro ´s Wetland with the children of a local elementary School, we will carry out activities of Environmental Interpretation focused to the ecology of freshwater and the migratory birds registered to date.

The stork festival is part and result of a stork conservation project called” Stork friendly villages around Lake Uluabat”, which has been initiated and is kooperated by Prof. Ismet Arici and Franziska Arici, supported by several GO’s and NGO’s.

The festival itself is organized by a committee and supported and financed by the Municipality of Nilüfer, the Nilüfer Local Agenda and other GO’s and NGO’s.

The programme of the festival:

1. Day Workshop - Lake Uluabat: discussing the problems and identifying solutions

with the following presentations, for example:

Our birding field trip consist in birdwatching initiation to GAMA founder Members. we will visit SALé coastal cliffs to look for an Eleonorae Falcon colony and then we will leave to Sidi Bou Ghaba lake which is a RAMSAR site and where some scarce watefowl species occur.

BirdLife South Africa and the local bird guides will be teaching UTAKA PRIMARY SCHOOL learners and the members of Wakkerstroom Bird Club about the importance of water on migratory bird species. On May, 3, 2007 there will be a bird watching event aroud Wakkerstroom.