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 * Birding** helps conservation. It's entertaining and it's good for your body, your eyes and your spirit.

On this page: World Migratory Bird Day

Headlines
http://planeta.com/world-migratory-bird-day http://www.dw.com/en/china-builds-first-bird-airport-to-attract-feathered-friends/a-37795569 https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2017/02/to-name-a-mockingbird/518013 [|Avibase] - [|@BiodiversityNew] [|@Avibase] [|It’s Gadgets vs. Eyeballs as Two Species of Bird-Watchers Clash]

Livestreaming
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Flickr Groups
[|avibase] [|Birds of the World]

Flickr
[|Musée ornithologique illustré]

Twitter
[|@Avibase] [|@FestivalAvesToh] [|@nzbirdsonline] [|@newzealandbirds] [|@WMBD] [|@pablo_dulce] [|@BBCKingsbirds] [|@BirdingBeijing]

Recommended listening
[|Flying for your life] - Every year, millions of birds make a monumental journey between their breeding grounds in Arctic tundra and their wintering grounds in Australasia. But shorebird populations are plummeting, with seven of Australia's 37 migratory waders on the Commonwealth threatened species list. In this four-part series, Off Track takes you further than it ever has gone before to find out why. [|@jones_ann]

[|Where birdsong began] - Why Australia's birds came to be so extraordinarily intelligent, aggressive, loud, long-lived, and how Australia was the source for the majority of the world's songbirds.

[|David Attenborough: Bowerbirds - Science Show]

[|Emus seed the bush] - Scientists in Western Australia are finding out how emus play a critical role in dispersing plant seeds in forests.

[|Bird Interrupted] - Recording birds in the wild has been called a kind of ‘benign hunting’, and enthusiasts often say their favourite bird is the next, the one that they haven’t seen or heard yet. But for Hollis Taylor, musician, composer and zoömusicologist, it’s not the next bird or the last, it’s the [|pied butcherbird].

[|Bird Feeding] - Feeding wild birds in nature is not always a good thing.

Events

 * May 10** World Migratory Bird Day (WMBD) is an annual awareness-raising campaign highlighting the need for the protection of migratory birds and their habitats.

Migratory birds connect all corners and almost every environment of the world along their migration paths. WMBD is a global event that was started in 2006 and brings together organizations, governments and dedicated people to protect migratory birds for future generations. WMBD works as a network to increase public knowledge about migratory birds and their importance and also connects groups of people to share, celebrate with and learn from each other.

Birds don’t migrate on a single day. So while IMBD’s official date is the second Saturday in May for the U.S. and Canada, and the second Saturday in October for Latin America and the Caribbean, Bird Day activities take place year-round, and events are best offered when migratory birds are present. IMBD is coordinated by Environment for the Americas.

Don't confuse World Migratory Bird Day with International Migratory Bird Day

Details: http://www.worldmigratorybirdday.org [|Facebook] [|Flickr] Twitter: [|@WMBD], https://twitter.com/EFTA_birdday Hashtags: [|#WorldMigratoryBirdDay], [|#WMBD2017] YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/WMBDcampaign [|#WMBD2017] Planeta: http://planeta.com/world-migratory-bird-day

International Environment for the Americas was created as a result of [|**International Migratory Bird Day’s**] success. Created in 1993, the celebration has grown to become much more than a one day event. Over 700 events are now hosted from South America to Canada, materials are available year-round, and other projects and programs have been developed to increase bird conservation education. As a result of ** Bird Day’s ** growth, formal steps were taken to create a 501(c)(3) organization to provide a permanent home for ** Bird Day ** and other exciting efforts.That organization is Environment for the Americas (EFTA). Today, EFTA works with partners and programs throughout the Western Hemisphere.

An organization focused on bird conservation education and home of International Migratory [|#BirdDay] (IMBD), Día Internacional de las Aves Migratorias Western Hemisphere   birdday.org [|Mindful Birding at IMBD Events]

2016 https://www.nps.gov/yell/learn/news/16023.htm

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Elsewhere on the Web
[|American Birding Association] [|American Bird Conservancy] [|Audubon Latin American Bulletin] [|Avibase] - [|@Avibase]  - []

[|Bird Guides - Nature Canada] [|Bird Life] [|Birding.com] [|Birds and Birding in Venezuela] [|Brazilian Birds - BrazilMax] [|Fat Birder] [|International Birding] [|Partners in Flight] [|Operation Ruby Throat] [|Proact] [|Where do you want to go birding today?] [|Wild Macaws] [|Citizen Science - Cornell] [|Blogging for birders] http://www.radionz.co.nz/national/programmes/morningreport/birds-by-broadcast https://twitter.com/rnz_birds http://www.frontiersin.org/Evolutionary_Neuroscience/10.3389/fnevo.2012.00014/full http://www.birds.cornell.edu/roundrobin/2012/10/09/making-sense-of-coffee-labels-shade-grown-organic-fair-trade-bird-friendl

Urban Birder https://theurbanbirderworld.com https://twitter.com/urbanbirder

also [|@LeicaBirding]  & [|@WildLondon]

**Apps** https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/bird-calls-4500+-bird-sounds/id586869673?mt=8 http://merlin.allaboutbirds.org/ http://ebird.org/content/ebird/news/ebird_mobile_ios1

Spotlight on John Gerrard Keulemans
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Gerrard_Keulemans []

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Videos
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Australia

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Red Knot / Australia - Siberia
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Facebook https://www.facebook.com/bitternsinriceproject

Mexico
http://www.facebook.com/pages/BirdMexicoTravel/180006588694686?ref=sgm&v=info http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Mexico-Birding

Check out: According to Hugo, the 'eagle' on the Mexican flag is a crested cara cara or 'quebrantehuesos http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caracara_%28genus%29 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northern_Crested_Caracara http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gypaetus_barbatus

USA
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Eagles
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Owl https://twitter.com/UrbanPowerfuls

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 * Peacock = Pavo Real**

Turkey
[] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domestic_turkey

Buzzword Bingo Fledge = (of a young bird) develop wing feathers that are large enough for flight. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fledge

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