Skip to content

Search the Roberta Bondar Site

World Migratory Bird Day

The Second Weekends of May and October are events observed twice each year as World Migratory Bird Day to focus world attention on the need to protect migratory bird populations, their habitats, and their international flyways.

Through exchanges of information from people within and between the world’s flyways, we can communicate and learn from each other, across borders, within and between the world’s three major flyways to increase the level of awareness about the threats that birds are facing.

World Migratory Bird Day logo

This year’s theme “Dim the Lights for Birds at Night!” engages participants to understand the impacts of light pollution on migratory birds. The hope is that this campaign will trigger concrete commitments and pledges from Parties, cities, and others across the world.

Migrating birds connect us with their journeys. Their survival often depends on the role each of us plays in taking action to protect them. Each action we take to help them travel or feed safely, however small it might seem, adds up when we work together.

Birds add irreplaceable value to our natural environment and that is why the Roberta Bondar Foundation is working to raise awareness about the threats facing our precious birds, and to advocate for their more hopeful future. Here’s how the Space Station images help trace bird migrations in Dr Bondar’s Space for Birds | AMASS research project:

Check out our Foundation’s newest international Space For Birds | AMASS research project designed and led by Dr Roberta Bondar to document the lives and perils of several endangered migratory bird species from three perspectives: surface, aerial and space.

The Three Major Flyways

The Americas Flyway connects North American breeding grounds with wintering grounds in the Caribbean, Central, and South America.

The Africa-Eurasia Flyway connects European and northern Asian breeding grounds, including vital stop-over sites in the Middle East and Mediterranean, with wintering grounds in Africa.

The East Asian-Australasian Flyway connects north-east Asian breeding grounds, including vital stop-over sites in China and the Korean Peninsula, with wintering grounds in south-east Asia and Australia.


You up for World Migratory Bird Day Quizzes?

Right here!

World Migratory Bird Day quiz
BIRD	BRAIN	ALPHABET	QUIZ

Migratory birds fly distances that seem unbelievable to earth-bound human beings. For example, from its summering to its wintering grounds, the Bar-tailed Godwit flies 11,000 km over little more than 8 days without stopping.

For a cheeky Bar-tailed Godwit’s point-of-view — here’s an Australian ‘interview’ with a Bar-tailed Godwit about to make his return flight from Australia to Alaska…

Check out these RESOURCES!

then choose your filter to find a wealth of breathtaking migratory bird resource materials – posters, webinars, factsheets, educational materials, games, activities, infographics of species & habitats, flyers, presentations, social media resources.

B Bondar / Real World Content Advantage