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Dinara springs double surprise

Wednesday, October 6, 2010

After more than a month without word, Dinara (a Sociable Lapwing) sprung a double surprise today when we received not only a new transmission with details of her current location but also confirmation that she is in southern Uzbekistan!

Thirty years of migration – a million miles on the wing

Tuesday, September 21, 2010

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From now on it will be known as the million-mile bird: an Arctic tern which has been migrating between northern England and the Antarctic every year for the last three decades.

BirdLife Malta Raptor Camp – September 2010 Video

Friday, September 17, 2010

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BirdLife Malta Raptor Camp – September 2010 Video

Raphael Vassallo joins BirdLife Malta (BirdLife Partner) and the Campaign Against Bird Slaughter (CBAS) on their Raptor Watch camp in the Maltese countryside, monitoring for illegal hunting and trapping.

Bird Migration on the Bihar Plain in Hungary – Video

Thursday, September 2, 2010

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Bird Migration on the Bihar Plain in Hungary – Video

A new documentary film entitled 'Bird Migration on the Bihar Plain' has been produced by the Wings Over Wetlands demonstration project team in Hungary. The film documents the importance of the Bihar Plains as a breeding, wintering and stop-over area for hundreds of thousands of migratory waterbirds, highlighting the role played by the fishponds found in the area as a source of food and as an important place for the birds to rest during their often long and arduous journeys.

Following the migration of White Storks

Wednesday, September 1, 2010

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Natuurpunt (BirdLife in Belgium) is tracking migrating White Stork Ciconia ciconia on their route to Spain and West Africa.

Sociable Lapwings embark on an Amazing Journey

Tuesday, August 24, 2010

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Sociable Lapwings embark on an Amazing Journey

Following extensive research, nine Sociable Lapwings have been carefully fitted with tiny, state-of-the-art satellite transmitters, which will track their hazardous 5,000+ km journey from their breeding grounds in Kazakhstan to their non breeding areas in tropical Africa and other, as yet undiscovered, destinations.

Born to Travel Video – Arabic version

Thursday, August 5, 2010

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Born to Travel Video - Arabic version

Music & Migration – YOUR Migration music!

Wednesday, July 7, 2010

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Music & Migration – YOUR Migration music!

Martin Holm updates us on progress with his Music & Migration compilation - supporting BirdLife's Flyways Programme - and how he's now asking you to send YOUR migration music.

Top Ten News – BirdLife’s June 2010 Round Up

Monday, July 5, 2010

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Top Ten News – BirdLife’s June 2010 Round Up

Like the FIFA Football World Cup, BirdLife’s news in June 2010 shows the ups and downs of international conservation efforts. In June we kept up the focus on some vital BirdLife work from around the globe...

WOW partnership renews commitment to protect migratory waterbirds and their habitats

Monday, June 21, 2010

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Key organisations from the Wings Over Wetlands project partnership, representing the Ramsar Convention on Wetlands, the African-Eurasian Waterbird Agreement (AEWA), Wetlands International and BirdLife International signed a historic collaborative agreement to redouble their efforts to conserve migratory waterbird species and their critical habitats in Africa and Eurasia.

Supporting migratory bird conservation by Ann Scott

Wednesday, June 16, 2010

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Supporting migratory bird conservation by Ann Scott

Imagine the New Forest and a leafy walk in part of that forest on a warm day. Suddenly a Wood Warbler starts rolling out that intriguing song which sounds like a coin spinning and running down. You seek for and find a small brown bird with a beautiful yellow neck and breast whilst white tummy gleams in the sunlight. Shear pleasure!

International Waterbird Symposium in The Hague celebrates 15 years of flyway conservation in action

Monday, June 14, 2010

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The 15th Anniversary of the African-Eurasian Migratoy Waterbird Agreement (AEWA) will is being celebrated at an International Symposium being hosted by the Government of the Netherlands in The Hague, where AEWA was concluded on 16 June 1995 at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Alliance for grasslands

Monday, June 14, 2010

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The Alliances initiative for the conservation of the South American Southern Cone grasslands was launched by organisations dedicated to the conservation and study of wild birds in the four South American countries which share the great biome of the 'Pampas' or grasslands of the Southern Cone of the continent.

World Migratory Bird Day Celebration Promoting Botswana’s Diverse Culture

Friday, June 4, 2010

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World Migratory Bird Day Celebration Promoting Botswana’s Diverse Culture

BirdLife Botswana (BirdLife Partner) in collaboration with Department of Wildlife and National Parks celebrated World Migratory Bird Day with more than five hundred school children, forty-eight teachers and over fifty Mogobane community members on Saturday 29th May 2010 at Mogobane village kgotla. The theme for the celebration was Migratory Birds: Promoting Cultural Diversity in Botswana.