Educational Activity

We plan to involve local school children from 2 different schools: Ndindika day Secondary school and Nangarua Primary school. The students and pupils will be involved in morning birdwatching, talk or lecture and video show on migratory birds, drawing or painting different birds as per our theme for this year: Migratory birds and climate change. We also plan games that potray bird in migration.

About 200 students and teachers of Bukhara State Unversity have celebrated the WMBD on 12 May 2007 in a nice place called Sarmyshsay near Navoi,SE Uzbekistan. This event was organized under the BirdLife/RSPB project \"Important Bird Areas in Uzbekistan\". Contacts for this WMBD Event are: Prof. Savridin Bakaev [[email protected]] Dr. Mukhtar Turaev Alexander Solokha [[email protected]]

- 13/5/07, Municipality of Cholargos - Participation in event which is organised by Municipality of Cholargos. Educational activities for children (Educational Kit about Falco eleonorae) - 16/5/07, Goulandris Natural History Museum - Presentation about Falco eleonorae (conservation measures for Falco eleonorae in Greece) - 20/5/07, \"Antonis Tritsis Park\" - Presentation \"The four seasons of the year - Birds and migration\"

Values of the river Drava as an important site for migratory birds is being highlighted through a conference and an exhibition of photographs \"Drava alive\".

A field trip will be organised, visiting Ayrag Lake, a Ramsar Site in western Mongolia. Participants of the trip are biology students of Khovd University. The activity is sponsored by the project \"Support of HUN Club’s conservation and public awareness activities in western Mongolia\" which is supported by the Asian Waterbird Conservation Fund which is administered by WWF Hong Kong.

Theme: \"Migratory birds in a changing climate\". Climate change has very bad consequences on migratory birds. It causes the loss of essential bird habitats, changes migration patterns and increases the competition for food between migrating birds and residents.

A birdwatch program has been arranged for a group of resource persons from around Gujarat State. The event will be preceeded with an observation program of celestial objects. Participants will be given detailed information on the star charts etc. and be trained on how birds use position of stars to calibrate their location while migration.

Take a group of wildlife club young members and leaders for activities along the National RAMSAR site for Birdwatching and other observations. We will also talk to community members about Migratoy Bird and their actions to help them. At the end children will make drawings of their choice on the theme followed by a picnic on the beach. [We are holding the activity one week later because the weekend of 12-13 May was election Day in Seychelles so not a very good idea to take children out...]

Papuk Nature Park, situated in eastern Croatia is mountain region covered with beech, fir and oak forests. Due to very big population of White-collared Flycatcher and breeding Booted Eagle Papuk is nationally important bird area. Bird-watching event was organized in the oldest beech forest in Papuk Nature Park, in Park Forest Jankovac. After short presentation about 30 school children, accompanied with their teachers and press-representatives take a bird-watching walk through forest.

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