Subject: Bird Count & Festival Invitation
Date: Aug 28 13:09:34 1996
From: birdlife at ECNET.ec (by way of Scott Ray - birdlife at ECNET.ec


Some of you may find this fundraiser event of interest.


Join the Second "NTT World Bird Count" and the

NTT, a Japanese telecommunications provider, will hold the second "NTT
World Bird Count" from September 28 to October 13 this year. As in last
year's first "NTT World Bird Count", an inventive birdwatching event of the
coming "multimedia era", birding reports from around the world will be
compiled and publicized via the Internet and other communications means.
NTT will donate 1,000 Japanese Yen (approximately US$10) per every reported
species to BirdLife International. The donation will be used for wildlife
conservation activity. When you, whether a group or an individual, have a
birdwatching event during this period, please send: (1) common names and
scientific names of observed birds, (2) your name and address (plus number
of participants in case you are a group), (3) date and location and, (4)
comments on birds and birdwatching, to the following address. Your report
needs to arrive before October 31.

ENGLISH REPORTS:
"NTT World Bird Count" office
E-mail : wbc at wnn.or.jp
URL : http://www.wnn.or.jp/wnn-n/w-bird/
( *You can download bird check lists of your region from this site )

OR

Mail: BirdLife International
Pan-American Office
P.O.Box 17-17-717
Quito, ECUADOR
email: birdlife at cipa.org.ec
Fax: 593 [2] 433238

NTT World Bird Count is concurrently organized with the
"Festival Mundial de las Aves 1996" (World BirdWatch), an event
organized by BirdLife International worldwide on odd years
(1993, 1995) and only in the Americas on even years (i.e: 1996)
with over 200 collaborating organizations, and which
calls for the organization of educational and outreach activities as
well (for more information contact Roberto Phillips at BirdLife's email).

The first year it was organized, the event focussed on migratory
birds using the slogan "Flight for Life". Then, in 1994, it used "Flight,
color and
sound" as its slogan to focuss attention on the wonderful world of birds, and to
incentivate people to observe them by attracting them to their own
gardens. 1995 focussed on 'saving birds, saving habitats' to stress
the dependence of different birds on different types of habitats.

This year World BirdWatch will focuss on "Threatened Birds' and the
need to protect Key Areas to conserve them (see Key Areas for
Threatened Birds in the Neotropics, Wege and Long, BirdLife International,
1995).

You are cordially invited to participate in these events.
BirdLife International
Pan American Office
P.O.Box 17-17-717
El Nacional 304 y el Telegrafo
Quito, Ecuador
Tel\fax: 593-2-433238
email:birdlife at cipa.org.ec