Educational Activity

'Step into my World - Entra a mi Mundo'

*(Image above: Parque las Vegas/ Portoviejo, Ecuador) "Walk with Me"

Today is International Migratory Bird Day, and we are celebrating with a day that's all about the birds! At 10:30 a.m. and 1:30 p.m., we'll have a presentation about migratory birds followed by a short bird walk. Weather-permitting, we will have bird-themed craft and activity stations set up outside. Stop by anytime during program hours to learn more about the birds that migrate through our region during this time of year. Current public health guidelines will be followed. FREE. All Ages. For more info: (217) 896-2455 or [email protected]. 

Join Bird Safe Guelph on World Migratory Bird Day, May 14th, 2022, for a fun and educational day to celebrate our local and migratory birds!

Join us at the Acton Community Garden on World Migratory Bird Day and expand our concept of community to include local and migrating songbirds.

Join Birds Canada and Shadowland Theater in the Earth Ranger’s Studio to discover the migratory birds of Toronto and create your own bird puppet. Stop by to practice your binocular skills, play bird trivia, and get up close with bird mounts!

Enjoy the outdoors and get dirty at Tommy Thompson Park! Tommy Thompson Park, also known as the Leslie Spit, is a globally significant Important Bird Area and is visited by millions of birds every year as they migrate through the city. Help support our urban birds by planting native shrubs that provide important food resources and habitat!

Students of the 3rd grade of the elementary school "Knez Sima Markovic" Barajevo from Serbia will celebrate the World Migratory Bird Day with their friends within the eTwinning project " Živimo zeleno 2/ Living greenly 2". They will organize students and teachers online meeting.

The program:

- Presentation of WMBD and 2022 topic "Light pollution";

- Watching videos about migrating birds;

- Presentation on migratory birds, work of 3rd and 4th grade students of the elementary school "Knez Sima Markovic";

- Writing haiku poetry about migratory birds;

May 14 is World Migratory Bird Day, and there couldn’t be a better way to celebrate the return of our commuting friends than to attend a reading by ornithologist Scott Weidensaul from his lyrical debut picture book “A Warbler’s Journey.”

Weidensaul, a Pulitzer Prize finalist for “Living on the Wind,” will discuss bird migration based on his bestseller “A World on the Wing: The Global Odyssey of Migratory Birds,” and read from “A Warbler’s Journey” at 2 p.m. Saturday, May 14, at Open Book, 1011 Washington Ave. S., Mpls.

On World Migratory Bird Day, The Ghana Wildlife Society will organise a birdwatching exercise at the Pambros Salt Industries together with school children, teachers and the public in Greater Accra.

Ecological education activity that consists in observing the flora and fauna specific to the Suhaia Lake. The students of Suhaia Secondary School participate in the activity. Students will learn about Balta Suhaia, which became a Natura 2000 site in the fall of 2007, and since 2012 it has been under the protection of Ramsar (International Convention for the Protection of Important Wetlands).