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New York City: July 28
When: Friday, July 28, 2023, 8 a.m.-10:30 a.m.
Where: Meet at the entryway to Manhattan’s Morningside Park at 110th Street and Manhattan Avenue
What: This New York City bird walk will cover Morningside Park and Marcus Garvey Park in Harlem. New York City’s parks offer nesting environment for sturdy regional bird homeowners like Baltimore Oriole, Blue Jay, Northern Cardinal, Red-trailed Hawk, American Kestrel, American Robin, and lots of others. While New York City parks are birded thoroughly throughout spring and fall migration, birding information is restricted throughout July and August. We will be looking for to record the summer birds who are nesting in these important green sanctuaries in the city.
Hosted by: BirdLife International and NYC Audubon
Nairobi: July 29
When: Saturday, July 29, 2023, 7:30 a.m.
Where: Meet at the Nairobi National Park primary gate—you are accountable for your transport and entryway charges
What: Nairobi is the world’s birding capital, with more than 600 bird types tape-recorded for many years. Nairobi National Park is within the city limitations, and where 2 terrific communities fulfill: the forested or cultivated hills that increase to the Aberdare Mountain variety, and the large meadows that extend all the method to Kilimanjaro. Nairobi National Park is designated an Important Bird Area, hosting 10 bird types on the IUCN Red List, with 4 more checking out on migration. It is a Key Biodiversity Area, with 4 of the Big Five mammals, and a variety of unusual plants. As it is a national forest with wild animals, the bird ‘walk’ will be primarily in cars. Driving through the forest, we’ll hear the abundant tunes of Rüppell’s Robin Chat, and we might see Critically Endangered White-backed Vultures in the trees. At the bottom of the hill where the meadows begin, we’ll stop briefly at Nagolomon Dam to see waterbirds, consisting of African Darters, African Spoonbills and Spur-winged Plovers. A drive through the meadows might discover a Common Ostrich, the world’s most significant bird, or Endangered Grey Crowned Cranes, the symbol of Nairobi. The bird trip ends at Impala Viewpoint, ignoring the meadows from the forest.
Hosted by: BirdLife International and Nature Kenya
Singapore: July 29
When: Saturday, July 29, 2023, 7:00 a.m.-10:30 a.m.
Where: Dairy Farm Nature Park. If taking a trip by train, fulfill at Carpark A at 7:00 a.m. If taking a trip by car, fulfill at Carpark B at 7:15 a.m.
What: Dairy Farm Nature Park sits at the western limit of Singapore’s Central Forests Important Bird and Biodiversity Area (IBA), which holds the nation’s biggest degree of lowland jungle (>2,000 ha). The park sets down at the foothills of Bukit Timah, Singapore’s highest point and is popular as a birdwatching website amongst regional biologists. The park supports a routine population of the Critically Endangered Straw-headed Bulbul, a types that has actually otherwise decreased catastrophically in Southeast Asia due to the family pet bird trade. The Greater Green Leafbird (Endangered) and Long-trailed Parakeet are likewise frequently seen here, together with more than 80 types. The Wallace Education Centre offers a useful background to the pioneering deal with Singapore’s nature more than 140 years back, and a good rain shelter.
Hosted by: BirdLife International and Nature Society Singapore
Bangalore, Brussels, London, and Quito
Walks to be scheduled in August and September—remain tuned!
It offers me huge satisfaction to reveal BirdLife’s collaboration with The New York Times Birding Project. Citizen science, information gathered by you and me and fed into Cornell’s E Bird app, help our researchers have the most updated details on how birds are doing worldwide. We hope you’ll join us.
Martin Harper BirdLife Interim CEO
