Migratory birds
Migratory birds are an ideal subject for forging links between wetland education centres located on the same flyway. The arrival and departure of seasonal birds is an annual phenomenon that sparks people’s interest and imagination. They wonder where the birds come from and where they go, and it helps to emphasise the importance of their local sites as part of a network, vital to preserve these migratory bird populations .
Staff and visitors, could take concrete steps to monitor and record the arrival times of birds, numbers of species and individuals to share this information with other wetland education located on the same flyway centres. The data and resulting interest could promote further conservation measures in your country but also in other countries through these migratory birds.
Migratory Birds for People
WLI supports the Migratory Birds for People (MBP), a regional network of wetland centres in the East Atlantic Flyway. Download the education game map and guidebook and connect with MBP members.
Explore the World with Shorebirds!
The Educator's guide for the Shorebird Sister Schools Program, for classroom and home-educators. Six-hundred pages of shorebirds educational resource for the Western Hemisphere Flyway. Via WHSRN.
Birds and Schools
Around World Migratory Bird Day, WLI members approach local schools, invite them to their centre to learn about migratory birds, and then they talk to other groups doing the same thing in other centres by video chat!
World Migratory Bird Day
World Migratory Bird Day happens in May and October. The organisers at CMS/AEWA produce materials every year suitable for your centre and online. The website includes an interactive map where you can submit your own centre's activities.
East-Asian Australasian Flyway Partnership
EAAFP's strategy and online resource. Standardised summaries of CEPA, with diverse groups from children across the flyway, to farmers from Alaska to the Philippines. Videos, presentations, and a travelling photo exhibition.
West Africa bird flyer
For the MBP network, Lamine Dramé drew some of the migratory waterbirds found in West Africa, and Khouloud Belhadj combined them into a fold-out flyer to use in the field. Request a printed copy on rugged paper from WWT, or download: printable file; phone-format PDF; phone-format image.
Flight of the Osprey
To accompany the 2022 'Flight of the Osprey' expedition, Migratory Birds for People has co-produced activities, teachers' guides, and fact sheets about ospreys in the East Atlantic Flyway. In partnership with Conservation Without Borders and the Trust for Sustainable Living.
Flight of the Swans
Bewick's swans-based materials from the 'Flight of the Swans' paramotor expedition from Russia to UK. Includes KS-3 lesson plan, crafts, colouring, and four fact sheets on swans, wetlands, getting around, and design for life.
Funny sketch scripts
The Nature Conservancy Canada has prepared fun scripts, which you are free to modify, telling tales of birds migrating in the Western Hemisphere Flyway in the airline Peregrine Planes. Shared via WHSRN.
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