Birdwatching

This year Nature Conservation Egypt will expand its activiites and celebrate WMBD not only in Lake Qarun Protected Area and Port Said, but also in Sukhna (Red Sea) and Damietta and the north coast.

Bird lovers and school children will be joining us. We have planned various activities, such as bird monitoring and bird counting for those areas.

Local community groups or site support groups will be celebrating the day at different sites including South Nandi, Tana, Kinangop, Kereita, Kakamega, Mida creek, Dakatcha, Mt. Kenya, Yala, Dunga and Chereng'ani through various activities.
Some of these include birdwatching, video shows, clean-up exercises, talks and discussions, tree planting, raising awareness on bird identification, speeches from invited guests and entertainment.

The celebration activities will include purchasing and printing promotional t-shirts with the World Migratory Bird Day 2010 theme.

Moreover, there will be a morning bird walk to Mogobane Dam under the leadership of experienced guides who will instruct the children on aspects regarding birds.

The day will end with a show expressing Botswana's diverse culture performed by school children. Various schools will participate and perform choral singing, dancing, dramas depicting conservation issues and cooking traditional dishes.

Taï National Park, located in the south west of Ivory Coast, will organise a WMBD conference in the city of Soubre aimed at raising awareness among school-children. Pictures and films of migratory birds will be shown followed by a discussion on the reasons for migration and the effects of climate change on birds' migration routes. The event will also include a field trip and birdwatching along the Sassandra river which runs through Soubre.

Birdwatching around Lake Burdur with 12 members of the Burdur Birdwatching Group.

This year's event involves a Birdwalk to Sukari Dam within Sukari Ranch, off Thika Road Nairobi.

Special 2 hour (early morning) birdwalk undertaken by 10 members of staff to look out for all birds with special focus on migratory species.

To mark the World Migratory Bird Day (WMBD), the EAAFP Secretariat invited eighty students and their parents from Haesong Elementary School in Songdo on 7 May 2010 to the Waterbird Watching & Education Program.

"Awareness Raising on World Migatory Bird Day(WMBD) in Cameroon"

Activities for the event include:

-A water birds poster contest for all environmental clubs in the Southwest, West and Northwest Regions;

-A migratory birds poster contest by all students from secondary school through University;

-An essay contest for all students from secondary school to University on “The Ecological Importance Of Birds To Our National Economy”;

-Two bird watching events in Fako Division with a visit to the mangrove forest in Tiko on 9 May 2010;

In conjunction with World Migratory Bird Day 2010, MNS Kuching Branch Bird Group will be organizing a bird watching trip to Kg. Chupak on 9 May 2010 (Sunday).

One of the nearest and most extensive rice fields around Kuching area, Kg. Chupak/Skudup attract great number of migratory and wetland birds.A number of interesting sightings have come out of the area including Sand Martin (1st record for Borneo for nearly a century), Greater Painted-Snipe (1st for Sarawak), Red-necked Phalarope, Blue-breasted Quail, Black-winged Stilt and Chinese Pond Heron.

A 12 hours long birdwatching trip with the aim to contact, by sight or voice, up to 100 species of birds. Last year on 9 May, we checked 97.