The 9th of May is World Migratory Bird Day, and the Endangered Wildlife Trust is celebrating it with an exclusive webinar for their Wild Chats series.
South Africa (08 May 2020) – The Endangered Wildlife Trust (EWT) will be celebrating and supporting World Migratory Bird Day on 9 May 2020. To honour the birds, they are hosting a Friday webinar as part of their Wild Chats series. The trust also has fun activities set up for the family to do together.
To celebrate World Migratory Bird Day, the EWT will be hosting a Wild Chat webinar on Friday, 8 May 2020, at 11:00 (GMT+2), entitled Craniacs! Everything you want to know about cranes. You can register for the webinar here.
Dr Lara Jordan will be the speaker for the webinar. Dr Jordan is the Drakensberg Project Coordinator with the EWT’s African Crane Conservation Programme! She’ll be discussing the beautiful African crane.
Dr Jordan will cover how many species there are in the world, how these species differ and how we can help cranes around the world through conservation. The talk is suitable for all ages.
The Trust will also be teaching you and the children how to origami fold cranes. It will take place on their social media. They hope to share the magic of bird migration with young minds.
“At a time when global air travel by man has, to a large extent, come to a standstill due to COVID-19 restrictions, the annual migration of millions of birds across the world continued uninterrupted during March and April. These flights are not without challenges, with a range of potential threats impacting many individuals who undertake these arduous journeys twice a year, often between hemispheres, continents, and at a more local level. The migrations do, however, illustrate the connectivity of habitats used by these migrants across flyways, and the need for coordinated conservation action along these, irrespective of international boundaries.” – André Botha, manager of the EWT’s Vultures for Africa Programme
The webinar will teach everyone about the migratory patterns of birds and how they connect various ecosystems. The EWT has multiple programmes that work on migratory species, including the Birds of Prey, Vultures for Africa and African Crane Conservation programmes.
You can find out more here.
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