Educational Activity

I'm a professional safari guide, a member of the Kenya Professional Safari Guides Association 'B' Level.
While growing up around Lake Victoria we hunted a lot of birds just for fun not knowing that birds were going to be one of my future hobbies and a way of earning my living through ecotourism.
It is in this course, that my friends and I have decided to undertake a birdwatching activity around where I grew up (Asembo,Bondo).

Nature Seychelles will co-organise a bird festival for all wildlife clubs, hosted by clubs in the Northern region of the country for all other regions. Beginning the 5th of May at school level, clubs are being sensitised on the issue during their club meetings and will organise exhibitions, visits to nearby shores and other school-based activities. At national level however we will be organising this bird festival on the Saturday 24th of May since the 10th (the official WMBD) would be the time of high tides in Seychelles, what makes it difficult to watch some migratory birds.

Additional education talks throughout the weekend presented by education staff and keepers at Edinburgh Zoo. WMBD weblink added to Edinburgh Zoo website plus press release to highlight the weekend's events.

1. Morning and evening bird walks
2. Songs, poems & dances
3. Excursion tours and field trips within Dakatcha woodland IBA
4. Educating local community, schools & churches on biodiversity conservation
5. Tree planting programmes
6. Creating awareness & sensitizing the public on the importnce of environmental conservation

The Kakamega Environmental Volunteers, a site support group working with Nature Kenya (the BirdLife partner in Kenya), will organise a number of events to commemorate WMBD on Saturday, 10th May 2008.
A morning bird watching session starting at 7 a.m. to 9:30 a.m. involving 400 pupils from the surrounding schools and community members. Other interested birdwatchers are welcome to join us. This will be followed by discussions on 'How do birds prepare to migrate'? by John Luseno and Leonard Likhotio.

RSNH is organizing a week of celebrating WMBD 08. Along with the regular tours and excursions with school students and nature lovers, RSNH is organizing slide/film shows for the students in Udaipur to make them feel the beauty of birds by heart. Besides, Bird Races are planned to be organized at Udaipur & Bharatpur.
In Udaipur the area for the bird search during the race is restricted to the Sajjan Niwas Garden to be tackled by the youngsters.

Our birdwatching tower is located at Har Us lake. We will prepare 3 days of field expeditions with biology students and teachers. We will register migratory birds and will learn the method of the how to count waterbirds.

Workshops and posters

There are spring migration watching days in Kabli Bird Station for wider public.

The opening of the Ukrainian Society for the Protection of Birds educational station is planned as a special educational event. The aim is to raise public awareness of conservation problems and possible solutions for migratory birds on their flyways. The event is planned together with Kyiv Zoological Garden. The permanent educational station in the Garden will serve visitors through providing information, souvenirs and publications about birds, and organizing educational activities.