Global Birding

Global Birding is a new initiative founded by Tim Appleton , who was also a co-founder of Birdfair. It “aims to build a global community who is passionate about nature and ready to help fund vital Global conservation action.”

It is organising a “Global Bird Weekend” over the 17th and 18th October this year. The 17th will be a sort of international Big Garden BirdWatch, when the organisers hope that at least 25,000 participants worldwide will record species seen in their local area, using the e-Bird App, with a goal of more than 6000 bird species. Birders can take part as individuals or as teams.

Global Birding is also seeking to raise funds for the BirdLife International “Stop the Illegal Bird Trade” campaign.

Websites, etc.:

https://globalbirding.org

https://twitter.com/global_birding

http://www.birdlife.org

AGM and future meetings

Unfortunately only nine members logged in for the virtual AGM on 30th September, which meant that the meeting was not quorate and had to be adjourned with no new date yet set.

The Club now has a Zoom account and plans to use it to provide a series of virtual talks in place of indoor meetings until it is possible again to meet face to face

Talks from Birdfair

This year’s Birdfair in August was a virtual event. Most of the talks, discussions and presentations were recorded and will remain available on the Virtual Birdfair website until about the third week of November. The link https://virtual.birdfair.org.uk/index.php/marquees/events-and-lectures-marquee/ takes you to a screen of scrolling panels or, lower down the page, a menu of different subsets of the events, each of which will produce a list for the chosen category. Clicking on a title will take you to further information and to a link to activate the recording. In some cases you may need to click on the panel with the “Virtual Birdfair” tent drawing to access the content.

Events vary in length from 10 to 12 minutes up to over an hour and there is plenty to keep you entertained and informed.