World Migratory Bird Day. Every year the world champ of migratory birds, the Arctic tern, flies approximately 70,000 kilometers. It is the precursor of spring in the Arctic however come fall the Arctic tern flies more than 10 thousand kilometres to delight in summertime in the southern hemisphere in Antarctica.
In an Arctic Tern´s life time (approximately thirty years) the bird covers a range that totals up to flying to the moon and back.
World Migratory Bird Day is renowned two times a year 13 May and 14 October in 2023. Perhaps it is proper that migratory birds are renowned two times a year given that they are per meaning the most global of all types.
Icelandic professional photographer Daníel Bergmann takes pleasure in the arrival of migratory birds in the spring. No question given that photographing birds would be much poorer without them given that they make up a bulk of birds that breed in Iceland.
Vast areas in threat
The focus of World Migratory Bird Day 2023 is on the subject of water and its value for migratory birds. This is an issue that Bergmann and other members of Fuglavernd (BirdLife Iceland) are rather anxious about, not least in your area.
“The biggest change in the habitat are plans for massive forestation,” Bergmann says describing strategies to plant numerous countless trees to change a few of the large voids that the island is understood for. The intents are good: to let the trees take in CO2 from the environment and release oxygen in exchange. However, this minimizes the environment of geese and the wetlands where wading birds grow.
“We think that our responsibility is great since Iceland houses half of the world´s whimbrel and a third of the golden plover. Now the intention is to change the habitat that these birds have known for centuries. This and massive plans of building wind turbines are the topics we follow closely locally.”
Rest and refuel
Bergmann, explains that Iceland functions as a stop-over place “petrol station” for countless birds, not least geese on their method from Europe to North-America.
The large bulk of migratory birds count on water environments throughout their life process. Inland and seaside wetlands, rivers, lakes, streams, marshes, and ponds are all crucial for feeding, drinking, or nesting, and likewise as locations to rest and refuel throughout their long journeys.
Unfortunately, water environments are ending up being progressively threatened around the globe therefore are the migratory birds that depend upon them. The increasing human need for water, along with contamination and environment modification, are having a direct influence on the accessibility of tidy water and the preservation status of lots of migratory birds.
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