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| World
Bird Festival
Celebrating
the inspiration of Birds! |
 Birds
are spectacular.
While we are earthbound, birds fly. Birds are part of our daily
lives, our art, dances, songs, myths. Birds provide us with food,
ornaments, and ceremonial objects.
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|  2006
Challenge
How
many of Kenya's 1089 species of birds can you see and identify in
24hrs?
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year, Festival activities, including the birdwatch will be taking
place in Kenya in November. Anyone can register and send us their
birdlist. A list completed during any 24 hours in the month of November
can be submitted.
To participate send your name and address to office@naturekenya.org
An
information pack with checklist and map will be sent to you in due
course. You must pair with at least one other person for your list
to qualify. |
Don't
miss talks and
award-winning films on birds!
Click
for the Programme
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Promoting
birding to Kenya at the British Bird Fair August '06
- Nature Kenya encourages birding to Kenya, which supports the conservation
of Important Bird Areas around the country more
on the Bird Fair |
| Looking
for a birdwatching safari?
For some recommended companies and guides
Click here |
Background
BirdLife
Partners around the world, organise events, which bring people closer
to birds and nature. Nature Kenya is a member of this global Partnership
of conservation organisations called BirdLife
International.
BirdLife International Partner organisations work closely together
to conserve all bird species and their habitats, and through this,
to work for the world’s biological diversity and the sustainable
use of natural resources. The idea of uniting birdwatching events
around the world into a single event gave rise to BirdLife's first
ever WORLD BIRDWATCH in 1993.
In
Kenya WORLD BIRDWATCH weekend has involved a large number of birders
in teams, who fan out across the country, to clock off the largest
number of species in 48 hours. It is exhaustive, competitive and
fun. It is also very useful in the collection of data on bird species
occurrence and distribution.
Since
then WORLD BIRDWATCH was held during one weekend in October every
two years. Additionally BirdLife Partners in Europe have run EUROPEAN
BIRDWATCH annually. In the Americas the BirdLife network have carried
out bird and nature events annually during the entire month of October
and it was called "Festival Mundial de las Aves" (World
Bird Festival). |
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