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A wide variety of events will be taking place across Europe for BirdLife International's EuroBirdwatch. Photo by Birdlife International.

Don’t miss this year’s EuroBirdwatch

Birdwatch news team
Posted on: 05 Aug 2012

EuroBirdwatch, Birdlife International’s annual European and Central Asian birding festival, works to raise awareness of bird migration and promotes efforts to protect threatened birds and their habitats. This year, the event will take place on the weekend of 6-7 October 2012.

EuroBirdwatch aims to encourage as many people as possible to go birding over one weekend and to record sightings of as many bird species as possible. It also provides a great opportunity for birders to meet and increase their own knowledge. The wide variety of events organised across the Continent include birding excursions, special wildlife watching events on organic farms, contests for children to identify birds by their song, bird fairs, trips to watch birds in national parks and many more activities.

In 2011, BirdLife Partners and affiliated organisations from 37 European and Central Asian countries participated, organising a grand total of 2,200 different events. Almost five million birds species were counted, with Starling, Little Bunting and Common Crane the top three.

To take part in this festival, find your national EuroBirdwatch co-ordinator – the BirdLife partner in your country – choose the event you’re interested in and enjoy birding!

Click here for more information.