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09/14/2011
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Birdfair 2012: Friday 17th – Sunday 19th August Birdfair 2013: Friday 16th – Sunday 18th August
09/14/2011
Birdfair Pin Badges
BIRDFAIR 2011 PIN BADGES! It has been brought to our attention that this year’s Turtle Dove pin badges are being sold on Ebay. If you would like to purchase a badge, please contact the Birdfair Office directly on 01572 771079. This will ensure money generated from the sale of these badges goes directly to the [...]
09/14/2011
Birdfair Record Breakers in Recycling
Thanks to our dedicated team of volunteers! We are delighted to announce that we recycled a record-breaking 86% of the waste produced at this year’s Birdfair! This year’s Fair was as successful as ever, with great weather and a great turnout! Official figures to follow soon…
03/04/2011
A lifeline to prevent Africa’s first recorded bird extinction
Classified as Critically Endangered, the highest level of threat, this globally threatened bird has now been thrown a lifeline thanks to funds raised by the British Birdwatching Fair held at Rutland Water last August.
02/11/2011
Record flock of Sociable Lapwings discovered in Oman
Record flock of Sociable Lapwings discovered in Oman Friday 11th February 2011 Exciting news has just reached us that a country record flock of 90+ Sociable Lapwings was present at Salalah in Oman on December 25th, 2010. The record was submitted to the Amazing Journey team by Spanish birder Daniel Lopez Velasco who was on a [...]
02/02/2011
Spoon-billed Sandpiper podcast
Spoon-billed Sandpiper podcast Wednesday 2nd February 2011 One of the most challenging issues faced by conservationists working to save the Critically Endangered Spoon-billed Sandpiper from extinction has been establishing exactly where they breed in the vast coastal areas of the Russian Far East. This summer Heritage Expeditions, New Zealand’s award winning expedition travel company and [...]
01/18/2011
New eco-tourism initiative benefits Spoon-billed Sandpiper conservation
New eco-tourism initiative benefits Spoon-billed Sandpiper conservation Tuesday 18th January 2011 One of the most challenging issues faced by conservationists working to save the Critically Endangered Spoon-billed Sandpiper from extinction has been establishing exactly where they breed in the vast coastal areas of the Russian Far East. For the past two decades, local Russian and [...]
12/02/2010
Spoony needs your vote!
BirdLife’s work to save two key resting and feeding sites in China, used by one of the world’s oddest and most appealing waterbirds is to receive support from Disney’s Friends for Change initiative.
11/25/2010
Ethiopian surveys find high densities of Prince Ruspoli’s Turaco but highlight threats
25th November 2010 Recent surveys of Prince Ruspoli’s Turaco Tauraco ruspolii suggest that rates of habitat change have been very fast in the northern part of the species’s range, where large areas have been converted to agriculture and plantations of exotic trees. “The results of this survey will be of immediate use for conservation, as [...]
10/28/2010
Erzhan helps locate important new staging site for Sociable Lapwing in Turkey
This autumn researchers from Doga Dernegi (BirdLife in Turkey) have been actively monitoring Sociable Lapwings as they pass through Eastern Turkey. On September 26th, DD staff searching in the north east of the country located sixty Sociable Lapwings in two separate flocks of 30 birds at a previously identified Turkish staging site on the Erzurum Plain. [...]
10/28/2010
Now or never: action to stop impending extinctions is announced
Developing countries will be in a better position to halt the extinction of species that are hanging by a very thin thread, under a new partnership sponsored by the Global Environment Facility (GEF). Presented at the Convention on Biological Diversity’s 10th Conference of the parties (CBD COP 10), the GEF proposes that a new platform [...]
10/08/2010
Award-winning Birdfair is one of the best in the region!
The British Birdwatching Fair has been awarded Silver in the Tourism Event category of the East Midlands Tourism Enjoy England Excellence Awards 2010. The East Midlands Tourism Enjoy England Excellence Awards are designed to identify the very best of the region’s tourism businesses and set a benchmark to which the rest of the East Midlands [...]
10/07/2010
How artwork is helping save the albatross – by Meidad Goren
For over 30 years Bruce Pearson, a professional artist, has worked on a range of themes to convey his enthusiasm for wildlife and especially birds, giving a sense of wonder to the wild places they inhabit. More recently he has focused some of his time on developing creative links between art and conservation as a [...]
09/29/2010
Major population crash of Critically Endangered Taita Apalis
Taita Apalis Apalis fuscigularis is endemic to the Taita Hills, in south-eastern Kenya. It is one of the rarest birds in the world, surviving in only five small forest fragments at altitudes of between 1,500 and 2,200 m. Its known global range is less than 600 ha. In 2001, the population of this species was [...]
08/20/2010
BRITISH BIRDWATCHERS RALLY TO HELP ETHIOPIA
Tens of thousands of British birdwatchers attending the 22nd British Birdwatching Fair this weekend (starting today Friday 20th August), in Rutland, are coming together to raise funds for Ethiopia’s unique bird life. This landlocked African country now has 22 species of bird facing extinction. Man-made and natural phenomena all conspired, historically, to ravage Ethiopia’s wildlife [...]
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