Media Event

This year, most of us might have to stay at home for the World Migratory Bird Day, still it can be fun.  As the theme of World Migratory Bird Day 2020  mentioned “Birds Connect Our World”, and let’s get linked up by migratory waterbirds in East Asian Australasian Flyway! On 9 May, four amazing groups of Artists will bring us an hour of performance on music, visual art, story telling and a flying adventure with the migratory birds, about the stories of our Flyway.

SACON ENVIS Resource Partner is conducting an Online Photography Contest to highlight the importance of World Migratory Bird Day 2020.

'First there were feathers...' is a music project by Wendy McNeill that explores our connection to birds.

Drawing from scientific studies, literature, myth, and personal experience, McNeill explores these fascinating descendants of dinosaurs and how their fate is linked to our own.

This event will premiere a short video which introduces the first scene of the project. It also includes a written introduction on the wonder of Migration by Dave Warrington from Valencia Birding.   https://valenciabirding.com/

Birds on Niagara is in our 3rd year as an International Bird Festival celebrating both the winter birds on the Niagara River Strait, and providing year round educational activities with partners on both sides of the border.  Our goals are to both raise the awarness of birds, and to help to introduce citizen science to very critical conservation needs. This spring during the Corvid-19 pandemic we are hosting a series of vitural events to help keep people connected.

We will be hosting a Q & A session with our head of falconry at Tayto Park as we hope to tell our visitors about our breeding pair of white storks and the perilous migration for storks as they cross over Lake Qaraoun. The session will be available on social media through our Instagram and Facebook accounts. 

https://www.facebook.com/TaytoParkIreland/?epa=SEARCH_BOX 

We invite all in the SF Bay Area to join in celebrating this World Migratory Bird Day by uploading and sharing observations from your backyard, neighborhood, or local parks to iNaturalist on May 9, 2020. Due to restrictions to safeguard against COVID-19, we are unable to meet in person at this time, so let this be a way to find community through our shared passion of birds. 

https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/sf-bay-area-migratory-bird-day

Nature Conservation Society-Myanmar (NCS) will organize a nation-wide online media event WMBD 2020 with the following activities.

NCS will announce WMBD event before the official date of celebration invite people who to like and follow NCS social media and Facebook page and website for participation.

Ask several quiz questions related to WMBD and EFN sites of Myanmar on 9th May 2020 via the Facebook page. We will send award prizes via postage delivery to the winners. 

Keoladeo National Park & Ramsar Convention Site Bharatpur invites you all to a 2- 3 day Migratory Bird Awareness watching migratory birds mapping program in the park.

World Migratory Bird Day 2020 in Indonesia this year will be celebrated with a series of events starting from  1 October 2020. This year's celebration is a bit different from a few years ago because in Indonesia the COVID-19 prevention will continue until the end of May. But the efforts of the Poultry Lovers Student Association (HIMPUS) of the Veterinary Faculty of Syiah Kuala University did not want the closedown to become an obstacle to continuing to make people aware of the habitat and species of migratory birds. Activities which will be held by HIMPUS are namely:

Join us for some fun virtual games and contests on Facebook and Instagram @VisitSurfsideBeachTX

We will have lots of educationa links and information on migrating. We have 2 expert video events discussing world migration scheduled. We will have a chilfdren's storytime! We have a couple of Facebbok Live scheduled, a bird photo contest, and a kid's art contest! We also will be hosting a plastics cleanup on the beach!