Kerala Bird Race 2014 to enjoy birds … and learn from their ways Here’s another rendezvous with the feather folk. The 8th Kerala Bird Race will be held on Sunday, 16th November 2014. It is unique also in that it is simultaneously held in three cities across Kerala – Kochi, Thiruvananthapuram and Kozhikode! The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation Limited (HSBC) and Yuhina Eco-Media, along with Kerala’s birding enthusiasts across the three cities and their neighbouring townships, are organizing this unique programme, a signature event of the Bank, on Sunday 16th November 2014. The India Bird Races were conceptualized by Mumbai-based naturalist-writer Sunjoy Monga. These are a dawn to dusk event where teams of bird-watchers spend the entire day birding in and around each city, covering a broad range of birding sites across habitats. Presently, the India Bird Races are held in 15 Indian cities between mid-November and early-March, this period also coinciding with the peak inward migration of birds over peninsular India. More than 3000 people collectively partake in this exciting event, making it perhaps the greatest birding event in this part of the world, and perhaps anywhere. With the world becoming increasingly urbanized, and with more and more people residing in urban areas, these limited expanses of human-influenced landscapes are in fact turning into one more type of habitat on this planet. The India Bird Races help look on a continual basis at the birdlife of these urban areas and their surroundings and serve to popularize bird-watching and from thereon a better understanding of other aspects of our biodiversity and immediate environment so that support and awareness for the cause can be increased. Bird Watchers pl Caontact Sathyan Meppyur 9447204182
Posted on: Wed, 12 Nov 2014 14:15:47 +0000
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