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Grasshopper Buzzard. [Courtesy]
Bird lovers will today engage in a bird-sighting and recording event to mark the World Migratory Bird Day and eBird Global Big Day.
The day is aimed at creating awareness on migratory birds, the need to conserve their habitat and give bird lovers a chance to record their sightings on the eBird application.
“Bird lovers will record their sightings across all birding hotspots like Important Bird Areas. They can also record from anywhere, from their homes or the garden. Once they record the bird species on the e-Bird application, their home countries will then be ranked according to the number of species recorded,” Richard Kipng’eno, a bird expert at Nature Kenya said, adding that anyone can participate.
Early risers catch the worm at annual waterbird count in the Great Rift Valley
Thursday April 01 2021
Summary
Baringo and Bogoria boast international ratings such as Important Bird Areas for hosting extremely large concentrations of waterbirds.
Bogoria together with lakes Elmenteita and Nakuru were declared a Unesco World Heritage Site ‘as a natural property of outstanding beauty’ under the Kenya Great Lakes.
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The count must start at the crack of dawn before the birds fly off for the day.
By 6.15am, the teams meet at the starting point of Bogoria, at the new main gate of the alkaline lake that now measures 50 square kilometres, up from 30 square kilometres since the Great Rift Valley lakes began rising phenomenally in 2011.