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Celebrate with SEO / BirdLife Day Migratory Bird
On Saturday 14 May I hope in the Marshes of Shipyard.
have prepared activities for children and a birding trip through the marshes. From 10 am Meet in the Studies Center Wetlands near the Black Marsh Dockyard.
be distributed to all attendees a copy of a commemorative poster on migratory birds released for this World Day.
SEO / BirdLife has joined this international event is organized from the United Nations Secretariat. On World Migratory Bird (WMBD) is a global awareness campaign aimed at raising awareness of the need to protect migratory birds and their habitats.
is promoted by the United Nations Secretariat, UNEP / CMS (Convention on the Conservation of Migratory Species), which works to conserve wildlife and their habitats worldwide.
Migratory birds travel for thousands of miles to move between their breeding and wintering. Of the 450 species of birds that frequent Spain at one time or another, over half are the migratory nature. Some are here only in the breeding season and winter in Africa and other countries come to Spain to spend only the winter from northern Europe.
As stated by Juan Carlos del Moral, Area Coordinator Tracking SEO / BirdLife " a major threat to migratory birds is habitat loss and transformation."
migration of birds, which follow different strategies, routes, dates they are made, etc., Are indicators of environmental quality in the world. In recent years major changes have been detected in migration strategies of many species as the white stork, black stork and the eagle that are shrinking their migratory flights approaching the wintering and breeding areas, often as the common swift swallow or are advancing the start of migration. These changes have been attributed to climate change seems to be manifesting more and more ways plants and animals.
Through the study of migration patterns over time, it is possible to detect these changes and alert you to potential problems that may also affect humans. SEO / BirdLife this year put in place a system to monitor the migration of birds to know in detail the phenomenon as soon as possible and warn of changes that occur.
Activities SEO / BirdLife
The second weekend of May is celebrated worldwide activities related to migratory birds to share and raise public awareness about the need to protect them.
photography contests, bird watching live and direct birding marathon and much more in different parts of Spain and Morocco, encourage to participate and celebrate with SEO World Day of Migratory Birds: A program of activities.
can also participate in data collection through phenological Red Bird and Climate SEO / BirdLife allowing view the conservation status of migratory species and to assess the case, how climate change might affect them.
(*) On World Migratory Bird is a company's annual and global awareness, aimed at promoting the conservation of migratory birds and their habitats worldwide. It is organized by the Agreement on the Conservation of Migratory Waterbirds in Africa and Eurasia (AEWA) and the Convention on Migratory Species (CMS) - two international environmental treaties in Bonn and administered by the United Nations Programme on Environment Environment Programme United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP).
This year the celebration is dedicated to
"Changes in land use from a bird's eye view"
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