Educational Activity

Birdwatching, environmental education, press meeting, and information session at Kuyucuk Lake, Important Bird Area and Key Biodiversity Area (www.kuyucuk.org)

Explore the birds that make fantastic journeys, the habitats on which they depend, and the people who help conserve these birds. Join the Everhart, Lackawanna Environmental Institute, and other wildlife organizations in bird games, activities, bird-banding, nature tours, and raptor demonstrations.

Activities are free with paid admission to the Museum and are suitable for all ages. No reservations are required. For more information, contact the Museum at 570-346-7186 or email: [email protected].

We will be walking the park and our forested wetland to survey the several migratory birds that make North Carolina one of the best areas for observing birds.

NatureUganda has organised a nature walk and a boat ride on Lutebe Bay, a Ramsar site, to highlight the importance of migratory birds to the country in terms of tourism and also highlight the threats to some of the big migratory stopovers such as cut-flower growing on wetlands. It will be officiated by the head of Uganda tourism board.

During World Migratory Bird Day 2008 Students of Children Art House will participate in education activities such as quizzes and ecological games.
We will discuss bird migration and threats on bird flyways, such as spring hunting and poisoning in result of lead shot consuming, collision with power lines and how to help miratory bird. We conducted yet activities in 3 kindergardens. We showed them toy birds with real bird songs and talked to them about birds. Unfortunately we cannot have good birdwatching because it is still too cold in our place.

The event will involve the members of KENVO, pupils and students from local schools and members of the community. They will all start with a 2hr birdwatching tour in the forest, later they will converge at the KENVO resource centre where there will be talks on regarding migratory birds and the importance of birds in general. There will also be a video show and entertainment with this years theme of the WMBD.

The event comprises of three major events namely:
1. Early morning nature walk including bird watching
2. Canoeing around the open waters including bird racing
3. public dialogue / public awareness meeting

In attendance will be the resident local communities (SSGs taking a lead on local organisation/arrangements), members of tour and tour operators, private sector and government institutions as well as members of the general public and university students.

-Discussion «Birds are our friends”:
Information about the history of WMBD and bird conservation
-competition “Can you guess a bird?” related to bird exhibitions shown in the museum
-photo and book exhibition on “Bird protection is a business for everyone”
-ecological games “Guess and finish a bird picture”, “Guess and finish a bird model”, proverbs which include the word “bird”
-demonstration of the film “Cranes”
-students create a writing “Siberian Crane as a visit card of Allaikha”

We have invited Mirango Primary School to celebrate the day and these are the activities/events for the day:
1. A little talk about the day- birds migration and learn to recognize migratory birds
2. Bird watching and identification
3. Making plaster castes of birds tracks
4. Watch film on birds migration
5. Painting on theme of ‘Birds’
6. Making bird feeding troughs from local materials-(young leleshwa stems) which they can take to school
7. Composing a song for the day

To arise consciousness and to generate awareness on migration in our region we have built a mural in the corner of the TV station from Dolores City together with high school students and a local artist.
This event was sponsored and promoted by Grupo de Acción Ecológica Pampa Natural.
A newsletter will come out on the local newspaper.