In order to raise the public awareness and their interest in birdwatching and bird conservation, birdwatching societies in China joined the World Bird Festival of BirdLife International with the support of BirdLife International and Darwin Initiative. Totally 26 activities were held in Beijing, Jiangsu, Wuhan, Shanghai, Zhejiang, Fujian, Shenzhen, Chengdu, Luzhou, Mianyang and Kunming in October 2006, involving at least 43,600 citizens. This year's China Bird Festival is really a success!
| Birdwatching Society (BWS) |
Date |
Venue |
Activities |
No. of participants |
| Beijing Bird Watching Society |
6th Oct |
Daxing Milu Garden |
Entitled "To Protect Swallows in Beijing, To Welcome the Olympics". Activities includes exhibition of artificial nests of swallows, kites of swallows, children drawing and birdwatching at 2 points in the Garden |
More than 2,000
(30 volunteers) |
| Oct |
Primary and Seconday School |
Talks about swallow protection
Students writing articles, drawing or making handcrafts in the topic of the "Swallow Story" |
150
More than 200 works
|
| Jiangsu Wild Birds Society |
21st, 28th Oct & 4th & 11th Nov |
Nanjing Zhongshan Botanical Garden |
Birdwatching at fixed points |
1,500
(20 volunteers) |
| 29th Oct |
Nanjing University of Informatioin Science and Technology |
A talk about birdwatching for university students and birdwatching tours at school |
100 |
| Wuhan Bird Watching Society |
29th Oct |
Wuhan Botanical Garden of Chinese Academy of Sciences |
Birdwatching trip for the elderly during the Double Ninth Festival |
100 elderly
60 visitors
(30 volunteers) |
Shanghai Wild Bird Society
Green Oasis Ecology Protection Communication Centre |
19th Oct |
Ruian Plaza |
Bird photo exhibition
(The exhibition was shown again from 21st Oct to 6th Nov in the Shanghai Botanical Garden) |
200 |
| 22nd Oct |
Shanghai Botanical Garden |
A bird festival including birdwatching trips in the garden, playing environmental games with children, children drawing, birdwatching talks and exhibition of bird photos and IBAs |
1,200
(60 volunteers) |
| Zhejiang Wild Bird Society |
21st Oct |
Hangzhou Botanical Garden
Xingzhou and Santang communities |
Exhibition of bird photos taken in the West Lake, Hangzhou |
20,000 |
| 29th Oct |
Hangzhou Botanical Garden |
Bird race for school students (2 birdwatching training courses were provided to students before the race) |
9 teams
(1 teachers and 3 students in each team) |
| Fujian Bird Watching Society |
23rd to 28th Oct |
Library of Fujian Province |
An exhibition about wetlands, IBAs, Black-faced Spoonbill and Minjiang estuary |
2,000 |
| 28th Oct |
Library of Fujian Province |
A talk about Black-faced Spoonbill |
70 |
| 29th Oct |
Minjiang estuary |
Watching Black-faced Spoonbill |
65 |
| Xiamen Bird Watching Society |
16th Oct |
|
My-favourite-bird polling |
1,759 |
| 21st, 22nd & 28th Oct & 4 |
Bailuzhou Park |
Birdwatching at fixed points |
1,000 |
| Oct |
6 schools |
Birdwatching talks |
1,000 |
| Shenzhen Bird Watching Society |
14th Oct |
Futian Hongshulin Ecological Park |
Exhibition about Black-faced Spoonbill
Watching Black-faced Spoonbill |
1,500
(35 volunteers) |
| Luzhou Bird Watching Society |
21st Oct |
Baita Square |
Bird photo exhibition and setting up birdwatching points in the Square |
6,000
(15 volunteers) |
| 22nd Oct |
Luzhou Province Second Secondary School |
Bird photo exhibition and bird watching trips for students |
2,000
(10 volunteers) |
| 23rd Oct |
Luzhou Experimental Primary School |
Bird photo exhibition and bird documentary sharing |
500
(7 volunteers) |
| Mianyang Bird Watching Society |
23rd Oct |
Southwest University of Science Technology |
Bird photo exhibition
Talk about birdwatching activities |
1,000
60 |
| 26th Oct |
Mianyang Sixteenth Secondary School |
Talk about common birds in Mianyang |
100 |
| 27th Oct |
Mianyang Normal University |
Bird photo exhibition |
1,000 |
Kunming Bird Watching Society
Student birdwatching society in Southwest Forestry University |
Oct |
Kunming Yuantong Shan Zoo |
Exhibition about birdwatching activities, birding routes in Yunan and the present situation of bird protection in Yunnan |
|
| 4th, 14th and 22nd Oct |
Xishan Forest Park
Guihuangge Forest Park |
Birdwatching trips |
80 undergraduate or postgraduate students
60 park visitors |
| Oct |
Southwest Forestry University |
Writing poems for birds |
58 undergraduate students |
| Oct |
Southwest Forestry University |
Drawing bird pictures |
32 postgraduate students |
